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The Lengthening Pendulum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

A. Werner
Affiliation:
Melbourne, Australia
C. J. Eliezer
Affiliation:
Monash UniversityMelbourne, Australia
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Some recent papers have revived interest in some questions concerning the motion of a simple pendulum which is oscillating with small angular amplitude under gravity, when the length of the pendulum changes with time in some prescribed manner.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1969

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