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The Terminal Behaviour of a Uniformly Shortening Pendulum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

M. N. Brearley
Affiliation:
R.A.A.F. Academy Victoria
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In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are established for the continuation of small oscillations of a simple pendulum as its string length is decreased uniformly to zero, and the accompanying terminal value of the angular displacement is determined.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1969

References

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