🕰️ Large-Angle Damped and Driven Pendulum Lab: Period, Q Factor and Resonance
Swing a pendulum from small to nearly inverted angles, add damping and a periodic drive, and compare the full sin(theta) motion with the small-angle formula, the exact elliptic period and the resonance curve.
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Swing a pendulum from small to nearly inverted angles, add damping and a periodic drive, and compare the full sin(theta) motion with the small-angle formula, the exact elliptic period and the resonance curve.
pendulumlarge-angle perioddamped oscillatordriven resonanceQ factor
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