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  2. 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]

  3. Walking - Wikipedia

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    Human walking is accomplished with a strategy called the double pendulum. During forward motion, the leg that leaves the ground swings forward from the hip. This sweep is the first pendulum. Then the leg strikes the ground with the heel and rolls through to the toe in a motion described as an inverted pendulum.

  4. Generalized coordinates - Wikipedia

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    A double pendulum. The benefits of generalized coordinates become apparent with the analysis of a double pendulum. For the two masses m i (i = 1, 2), let r i = (x i, y i), i = 1, 2 define their two trajectories. These vectors satisfy the two constraint equations,

  5. Complex harmonic motion - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, a double pendulum may exert motion without the restriction of only a two-dimensional (usually vertical) plane. In other words, the complex pendulum can move to anywhere within the sphere, which has the radius of the total length of the two pendulums. However, for a small angle, the double pendulum can act similarly to the simple ...

  6. Chaos theory - Wikipedia

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    Starting the pendulum from a slightly different initial condition would result in a vastly different trajectory. The double-rod pendulum is one of the simplest dynamical systems with chaotic solutions. Chaos theory (or chaology [1]) is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics.

  7. File:Double pendulum simultaneous realisations.ogv - Wikipedia

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    English: Six slow-motion videos of the same double pendulum (built with Lego), recorded with a high-speed camera. For each recording, the double pendulum was excited in the same manner. The videos are temporally aligned to show that the behaviour is similar in the beginning and considerably different later – which is due to the butterfly effect.

  8. Swinging Atwood's machine - Wikipedia

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    Since the system is invariant under time reversal and translation, it is equivalent to say that the pendulum starts at the origin and is fired outwards: [1] r ( 0 ) = 0 {\displaystyle r(0)=0} The region close to the pivot is singular, since r {\displaystyle r} is close to zero and the equations of motion require dividing by r {\displaystyle r} .

  9. 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.