Pendulum with Several Links
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This Demonstration solves Lagrange's equations for pendulums attached in series with random initial angles and velocities
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. For simplicity, the masses, lengths, and gravitational acceleration are set to 1.
Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (June 2012)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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On a more powerful computer, the number of masses can be increased to 7.
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