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    and mathematics, in the area of dynamical systems, an elastic pendulum (also called spring pendulum or swinging spring) is a physical system where a piece...
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    pendulum Cycloidal pendulum Double pendulum Inverted pendulum Kapitza's pendulum Rayleigh–Lorentz pendulum Elastic pendulum Mathieu function Pendulum...
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    displacement of a pendulum from its resting position x=0. As the absolute value of x increases, so does the restoring force acting on the pendulums weight that...
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  • \beta =\delta =0} ); in physical terms, it models, for example, an elastic pendulum whose spring's stiffness does not exactly obey Hooke's law. The Duffing...
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  • Thumbnail for Newton's cradle
    designed by French scientist Edme Mariotte. It is also known as Newton's pendulum, Newton's balls, Newton's rocker or executive ball clicker (since the device...
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  • Phasor Q factor Quantum harmonic oscillator Radial harmonic oscillator Elastic pendulum Fowles & Cassiday (1986, p. 86) Kreyszig (1972, p. 65) Tipler (1998...
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  • Thumbnail for Kater's pendulum
    A Kater's pendulum is a reversible free swinging pendulum invented by British physicist and army captain Henry Kater in 1817 (made public on 29 January...
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  • Thumbnail for Torsion spring
    spring that works by twisting its end along its axis; that is, a flexible elastic object that stores mechanical energy when it is twisted. When it is twisted...
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    Critical speed Damping ratio Dunkerley's method Earthquake engineering Elastic pendulum Fast Fourier transform Mechanical engineering Mechanical resonance...
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    Simple harmonic motion (category Pendulums)
    the motion of a simple pendulum, although for it to be an accurate model, the net force on the object at the end of the pendulum must be proportional to...
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  • maps (list) Physical systems Chua's circuit Convection Double pendulum Elastic pendulum FPUT problem Hénon–Heiles system Kicked rotator Multiscroll attractor...
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  • maps (list) Physical systems Chua's circuit Convection Double pendulum Elastic pendulum FPUT problem Hénon–Heiles system Kicked rotator Multiscroll attractor...
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  • com/watch?v=aCocQa2Bcuc A double pendulum is a simple pendulum hanging under another one; the epitome of the compound pendulum system[according to whom?]....
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    is conserved, the collision is called an elastic collision; if not, it is an inelastic collision. An elastic collision is one in which no kinetic energy...
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    travelled per unit of time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. More simply, the speed of sound is how fast vibrations travel....
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    types of potential energy include gravitational potential energy, the elastic potential energy of a deformed spring, and the electric potential energy...
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    action transfers energy to the clock's timekeeping element (usually a pendulum or balance wheel) to replace the energy lost to friction during its cycle...
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    A spring is a device consisting of an elastic but largely rigid material (typically metal) bent or molded into a form (especially a coil) that can return...
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    situations where an elastic body is deformed, such as wind blowing on a tall building, and a musician plucking a string of a guitar. An elastic body or material...
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  • by an elastic force of a wire attached to the fulcrum of the pendulum. The radiation pressure is then calculated from the amount the pendulum swung....
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  • Thumbnail for Mechanical energy
    energy changes little and its conservation is a useful approximation. In elastic collisions, the kinetic energy is conserved, but in inelastic collisions...
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    An inelastic collision, in contrast to an elastic collision, is a collision in which kinetic energy is not conserved due to the action of internal friction...
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    hypervelocity impacts. Ballistic pendulum Coefficient of restitution Collision detection Contact mechanics Elastic collision Friction Impact crater Impact...
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  • Thumbnail for Christiaan Huygens
    engineer and inventor, he improved the design of telescopes and invented the pendulum clock, the most accurate timekeeper for almost 300 years. A talented mathematician...
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  • The Pendulum Vibe is the debut album of American recording artist Joi, released on June 28, 1994, by EMI Records. She recorded the album in three weeks...
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    earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through planetary bodies. It also includes studies of the environmental...
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  • Thumbnail for Moment of inertia
    oscillation of a compound pendulum is obtained from the ratio of the torque imposed by gravity on the mass of the pendulum to the resistance to acceleration...
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  • Thumbnail for Cottrell atmosphere
    leads to an elastic-after effect. By preparing samples containing a larger amount of carbon or nitrogen in solid solution, magnetic and elastic phenomena...
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  • Thumbnail for Mechanical resonance
    construction project. The Taipei 101 building for instance relies on a 660-ton pendulum—a tuned mass damper—to modify the response at resonance. The structure...
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    never return to the vicinity of the limit set. For example, the damped pendulum has two invariant points: the point x0 of minimum height and the point...
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