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Spring Pendulum


	The trajectories of a pendulum whose thread is an elastic spring are visualized. In the limit of a stiff spring (), the classical pendulum is recovered.


	Contributed by: Michael Trott
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— maximal time

— spring constant of the spring

— initial length of the spring

— initial coordinates of the pendulum

— initial velocities of the pendulum

Contributed by: Michael Trott

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