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Oct 20

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I'm having trouble understanding how to implement the automatic adjustment to the free values of the initial conditions. As of now I'm not going to implement this automatic finding and just use my intuition to guess at values, or I guess you you could call it shooting by hand.

Implementation

Finish Implementation tommorrow.

Use Shooting Method to find Critical Damping of a Pendulum

Free oscilating pendulum pendulum: \( \ddot{x} = -k\dot{x} \) where \(k\) is the spring constant.
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