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The Simple Pendulum with Uniformly Changing String Length

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

M. N. Brearley
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide, South Australia
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Abstract

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An analysis is made of the motion of a simple undamped pendulum which performs small oscillations in one plane while its string is raised or lowered through the point of support at a constant rate. The behaviour of the system and the variation of its angular and linear amplitudes are expressible in terms of Bessel functions of orders 0, 1 and 2.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1966

References

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