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🕰️ 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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Large-Angle Damped and Driven Pendulum Lab: Period, Q Factor and Resonance ↗ Open standalone
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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

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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