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  2. Pendulum (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    A pendulum is a body suspended from a fixed support such that it freely swings back and forth under the influence of gravity. 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 towards the equilibrium position.

  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. Scleronomous - Wikipedia

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    A simple pendulum. As shown at right, a simple pendulum is a system composed of a weight and a string. The string is attached at the top end to a pivot and at the bottom end to a weight. Being inextensible, the string’s length is a constant.

  5. Generalized coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Simple pendulum. Since the rod is rigid, the position of the bob is constrained according to the equation f (x, y) = 0, the constraint force C is the tension in the rod. Again the non-constraint force N in this case is gravity. Dynamic model of a simple pendulum.

  6. Holonomic constraints - Wikipedia

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    A simple pendulum. As shown on the right, a simple pendulum is a system composed of a weight and a string. The string is attached at the top end to a pivot and at the bottom end to a weight. Being inextensible, the string’s length is a constant.

  7. Phase portrait - Wikipedia

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    Phase portrait of van der Pol's equation, + + =. 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).

  8. Elastic pendulum - Wikipedia

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    In physics and mathematics, in the area of dynamical systems, an elastic pendulum [1] [2] (also called spring pendulum [3] [4] or swinging spring) is a physical system where a piece of mass is connected to a spring so that the resulting motion contains elements of both a simple pendulum and a one-dimensional spring-mass system. [2]

  9. 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 ...