Oscillations of an Elastic Pendulum

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This Demonstration considers the motion of an elastic pendulum. In the case that the spring frequency is double the pendulum frequency, the motions exhibit a resonance. There is nonlinear coupling between the spring motion and the lateral pendulum motion. Two subsystems can exchange energy, which depends on the initial conditions.
Contributed by: Volodymyr Holovatsky and Yana Holovatska (February 2019)
(Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine and Chernivtsi Liceum #1)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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[1] A.Vitt and G. Gorelik, "Oscillations of an Elastic Pendulum as an Example of the Oscillations of Two Parametrically Coupled Linear Systems," Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoy Fiziki, 3(2–3), 1933 pp. 294–307.
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