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Coupled Pendulum Oscillations


	Two pendulums, connected by a massless spring, are allowed to vibrate in the same vertical plane. For the limiting case of small oscillations, the equations of motion for the system are given by , , where is the acceleration of gravity. You set the masses, lengths and initial displacements. The resulting graph shows the angle between the two pendulums as a function of time.


	Contributed by: Stephen Wilkerson (Towson University) With contribution by Franz Brandhuber

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Contributed by: Stephen Wilkerson (Towson University)

With contribution by Franz Brandhuber

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