pendulum
Alex : upload and discuss your work here.
Jim on Sep 6
Homework for Alex :
- Read and understand the stuff above.
- Implement it yourself, and generate similar plots.
- Investigate what range of dt time steps give believable results. (And what is "believable"?)
- Add a friction damping term, and redo the plot.
Coming :
- Use Runge-Kuta 4 for the numerical algorithm. (You'll need to turn the 2nd order diffeq into a 1st order diffeq in (theta, omega), where omega=angular_velocity).
