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A Pneumatic Chaotic Pendulum

Classical Physics 2020-04-15 v2

Abstract

I present a chaotic pendulum based on the repulsive force between a random array of point sources of air flow and the conical tip of a rigid pendulum. Source code is provided for generation of random aperture arrays. The chaotic motion was analyzed using machine vision techniques. A computer simulation of this system is also presented, as are the results of some example simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2003.04105,
  title  = {A Pneumatic Chaotic Pendulum},
  author = {Devlin Gualtieri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.04105},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 page PDF file (10 page article with 15 pages of supplementary materials as appendices that include computer source. This revision extends the original submission by the inclusion of the computer simulation

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