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On the motion of a simple pendulum

  • Garfinkel B
Quarterly of Applied Mathematics (1958) 16(2) 192-196
DOI: 10.1090/qam/93948
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Abstract

The vanishing of the tension in a simple pendulum supported by a flexible cord causes the particle to pass from the circular to a parabolic trajectory. The number and the nature of such transitions are related here to the value of the initial energy.

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Garfinkel, B. (1958). On the motion of a simple pendulum. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 16(2), 192–196. https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/93948

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