Spring Pendulum
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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 (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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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
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