Crankshaft-Driven Pendulum

This Demonstration shows a special case of the damped and driven double pendulum The pivot of the pendulum is driven up and down by a slidercrank mechanism This transmits a vertical acceleration to the bob in addition to the acceleration due to gravity This results in the equation of motion where is the vertical position of the pivot along the slider The animation traces the movement of the pendulum bob

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