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The motion of a simple pendulum is governed by the nonlinear equation

, where

is the force of gravity and

is the length of the pendulum. This is the equation that this Demonstration models. In contrast, for small

, which gives the linear equation

Contributed by: Sarah Lichtblau

Inspired by: Rob Morris

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Nonlinearized Motion of a Simple Pendulum