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Oscillation time and damping coefficients in a nonlinear pendulum

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2021-06-28 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We establish a relationship between the normalized damping coefficients and the time that takes a nonlinear pendulum to complete one oscillation starting from an initial position with vanishing velocity. We establish some conditions on the nonlinear restitution force so that this oscillation time does not depend monotonically on the viscosity damping coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.2101.09400,
  title  = {Oscillation time and damping coefficients in a nonlinear pendulum},
  author = {Jaime Arango},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.09400},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

This paper is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Alan Lazer (1938-2020), University of Miami

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