Chaos in a Rotating Pendulum
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A pendulum of mass and length
is attached to a rod of length
, with constant angular velocity
around the
axis, with a damping coefficient
and a driving force amplitude
. The initial angle between the axis and the pendulum is
with velocity
. Plots of the system and its corresponding phase space are shown.
Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (August 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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The equation of motion is
,
where is the acceleration due to gravity.
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