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We discuss the equation of motion of the driven pendulum and generalize it to arbitrary driving angle. The pendulum will oscillate about a stable angle other than straight down if the drive amplitude and frequency are large enough for a…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-26 Gordon J. VanDalen

The single, double, and triple pendulum has served as an illustrative experimental benchmark system for scientists to study dynamical behavior for more than four centuries. The pendulum system exhibits a wide range of interesting behaviors,…

We designed a very simple asymmetric rolling spool and we studied it experimentally, in the librational regime, by using a video camera and video analysis software. Comparison of experimental results and theoretical analysis allows…

Physics Education · Physics 2014-10-24 P. Onorato , M. Malgieri , P. Mascheretti , A. De Ambrosis

The Looping pendulum phenomenon was first introduced in 2019 at the 32nd edition of the IYPT, wherein a lighter bob sweeps around a cylindrical rod to support the weight of a heavier bob. In this paper, the phenomenon was divided based on…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Avighna Daruka , Gyaneshwaran Gomathinayagam , Aneesh Agarwal

Dynamic behavior of a weightless rod with a point mass sliding along the rod axis according to periodic law is studied. This is the pendulum with periodically varying length which is also treated as a simple model of child's swing.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Anton O. Belyakov , Alexander P. Seyranian

Because of consuming energy to drive their motion, systems of active colloids are intrinsically out of equilibrium. In the past decade, a variety of intriguing dynamic patterns have been observed in systems of active colloids, and they…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-16 Zhan Ma , Mingcheng Yang , Ran Ni

In the course of basic physics, more precisely the course of classical mechanics should be understood as clearly as possible the subject of rotational dynamics for students of science and engineering, to have clarity with the issues…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-12-12 Alex Estupiñán , Miguel Pico , Raul Ortiz

A novel non-reactive thrust principle based on controlling the angular momentum of a material body is proposed. Theoretically, it is shown that asymmetric emission/absorption of low-energy particle fluxes with spin in a direction…

Popular Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Yury N. Razoumny , Sergei A. Kupreev

The prepared doctoral dissertation focuses on studying dynamics of systems composed of magnetic pendulums subjected to a non-stationary magnetic field. A magnetic pendulum is a physical pendulum with a magnet attached to its end and is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-01-22 Krystian Polczyński

Pendulums are simple mechanical systems that have been studied for centuries and exhibit many aspects of modern dynamical systems theory. In particular, the double pendulum is a prototypical chaotic system that is frequently used to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Kadierdan Kaheman , Jason J. Bramburger , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Dynamics of active deformable particles in an external Poiseuille flow is investigated. In order to make the analysis general, we employ time-evolution equations derived from symmetry considerations that take into account an elliptical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-07 Mitsusuke Tarama

Propellant sloshing is a well-known, but not completely mastered phenomenon in space vehicles. It is particularly critical in both microgravity environments - such as interplanetary spacecraft requiring high pointing stability - and high-g…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Francesco Capolupo

A physical pendulum with variable point of suspension (and, as an outcome, variable inertia moment) is experimentally analysed. In particular, the period of the small oscillations as a function of position of the suspension point is…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-10-02 Martin Monteiro , Cecilia Stari , Cecilia Cabeza , Arturo C. Marti

Typically the motion of self-propelled active particles is described in a quiescent environment establishing an inertial frame of reference. Here we assume that friction, self-propulsion and uctuations occur relative to a non-inertial frame…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-26 Hartmut Löwen

Experiments on the oscillatory motion of a suspended bar magnet throws light on the damping effects acting on the pendulum. The viscous drag offered by air was found the be the main contributor for slowing the pendulum down. The nature and…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Akhil Arora , Rahul Rawat , Sampreet Kaur , P. Arun

This paper presents an instability result of Hamiltonian systems associated with optimal swing-up control for a pendulum. The systems possess weak (higher-order) instability at the initial point of the swing-up control, the analysis for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Noboru Sakamoto

In Part I of this paper series, a theoretical and numerical model for a a driven pendulum filled with liquid was developed. The system was analyzed in the framework of tuned liquid dampers (TLD) and hybrid mass liquid dampers (HMLD) theory.…

This paper shows the study of interesting mechanical properties of Wilberforce pendulum. Analyzing qualitatively of the pendulum, it is able to know how the phenomenon occurs. By setting of the quantitative model, equation of the motion is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 S. Lee

We analyze the dynamics of a driven, damped pendulum as used in mechanical clocks. We derive equations for the amplitude and phase of the oscillation, on time scales longer than the pendulum period. The equations are first order ODEs and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 Peter Hoyng

This paper investigates the possibility of the motion control of a ball with a pendulum mechanism with non-holonomic constraints using gaits - the simplest motions such as acceleration and deceleration during the motion in a straight line,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Tatyana B. Ivanova , Elena N. Pivovarova