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Damped Swing Pendulum


	This Demonstration solves the differential equation for a damped swing pendulum, . Interestingly, starting from a vertical position with zero initial velocity, Mathematica starts the motion on its own (for a small-enough damping constant) because of numerical roundoff errors. Similar effects occur in chaotic dynamics.


	Contributed by: Balázs Kiss (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Additional contributions by: János Tóth, Attila Nagy

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"Damped Swing Pendulum" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DampedSwingPendulum/

Contributed by: Balázs Kiss (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

Additional contributions by: János Tóth, Attila Nagy

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