6.2 Chaos and the damped, driven pendulum
In lecture 3 (and the associated lab. session and coursework) you used the Euler-Cromer and Runge-Kutta methods
to solve the second order differential equation that describes the motion of a damped, periodically driven pendulum, namely:
I stated that the pendulum, under certain driving forces and damping conditions,
could exhibit seemingly random behaviour and mentioned that this behaviour was chaotic. In this section we will use a Java applet
to reexamine the behaviour of the damped, driven pendulum.
Move on to Section 6.2: Chaos and the damped, driven pendulum
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