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  2. Pendulum (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    The animations below depict the motion of a simple (frictionless) pendulum with increasing amounts of initial displacement of the bob, or equivalently increasing initial velocity. The small graph above each pendulum is the corresponding phase plane diagram; the horizontal axis is displacement and the vertical axis is velocity. With a large ...

  3. Pendulum - Wikipedia

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    "Simple gravity pendulum" model assumes no friction or air resistance. A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. [1] When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

  4. Phase space - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of how a phase portrait would be constructed for the motion of a simple pendulum Time-series flow in phase space specified by the differential equation of a pendulum. The X axis corresponds to the pendulum's position, and the Y axis its speed.

  5. Phase portrait - Wikipedia

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    Simple pendulum, see picture (right). Simple harmonic oscillator where the phase portrait is made up of ellipses centred at the origin, which is a fixed point. Damped harmonic motion, see animation (right). Van der Pol oscillator see picture (bottom right).

  6. Foucault pendulum vector diagrams - Wikipedia

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    Several vector diagrams are often used to demonstrate the physics underlying the Foucault pendulum. Diagrams are provided to illustrate a pendulum located at the North Pole, equator, and 45 degrees N to show how the rotation of Earth in relation to the pendulum is observed, or not, at these locations. This is not a rigorous evaluation but is ...

  7. Double pendulum - Wikipedia

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    A double pendulum consists of two pendulums attached end to end.. In physics and mathematics, in the area of dynamical systems, a double pendulum, also known as a chaotic pendulum, is a pendulum with another pendulum attached to its end, forming a simple physical system that exhibits rich dynamic behavior with a strong sensitivity to initial conditions. [1]

  8. Separatrix (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    These curves correspond to the pendulum swinging periodically from side to side. If < then the curve is open, and this corresponds to the pendulum forever swinging through complete circles. In this system the separatrix is the curve that corresponds to =. It separates — hence the name — the phase space into two distinct areas, each with a ...

  9. Pendulum wave - Wikipedia

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    A pendulum wave is an elementary physics demonstration and kinetic art comprising a number of uncoupled simple pendulums with monotonically increasing lengths. As the pendulums oscillate, they appear to produce travelling and standing waves , beating , and random motion.