Thursday, February 07, 2008
Chain of pendulums
I made a simple MATLAB simulation of a swinging pendulum and tried to visualize the 'wave' behaviour by making a chain of individual pendulums, released from the same altitude(angle) but at small constant time intervals. It shows the motion of the pendulum vs time, but created by a line of pendulums in 3D space.
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3 comments:
that looks nice!
did you program it symbolically?
No, I solved the 2D pendulum on paper (it was pre-chewed(?) in a book). It was the first assignment of a flight dynamics practicum where they assume you don't have any experience with matlab.
We had to plot the pendulum angle vs time in a simple 2D plot to learn matlab basics, but I made this while others were noobing around.
Nice work, looks quite hypnotic
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