2D Pendulum Wave — Numerically Integrated Pendulum Row
2D side-view pendulum-wave apparatus: a row of simple pendulums with real, precisely different lengths, each independently integrated frame by frame from the actual nonlinear pendulum equation of motion theta'' = -(g/L) sin(theta). Their real relative phase drift produces the emergent travelling wave, standing-wave and chaotic-looking patterns, then a genuine re-synchronization at the end of one full cycle.
This 2D side-view companion to the 3D Pendulum Wave laboratory runs a row of genuinely independent simple pendulums, each with a real, precisely different length set by the classic pendulum-wave design rule L_n = g·T_n²/(4π²). Every frame, each pendulum's angle is advanced by RK4-integrating its own real equation of motion theta'' = -(g/L)·sin(theta) — the travelling-wave, standing-wave and chaotic-looking patterns you see, and the exact moment they snap back into a single line, are all emergent consequences of that per-pendulum dynamics rather than a pre-scripted phase animation.
2D side-view pendulum-wave apparatus: a row of simple pendulums with real, precisely different lengths, each independently RK4-integrated from the actual nonlinear equation of motion theta'' = -(g/L) sin(theta), so their real relative phase drift produces the emergent travelling wave, standing-wave and chaotic-looking patterns, then a genuine re-synchronization at the end of one full cycle.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install