🌀 Double Pendulum Chaos
A double pendulum consists of one pendulum attached to the end of another, and even though its motion follows deterministic Newtonian equations, its behaviour is famously chaotic: two nearly identical starting positions diverge into wildly different swinging paths within seconds. It is one of the simplest physical systems that demonstrates chaos theory in action.
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