Re: ANN: Simple Pendulum Simulation
Thanks, Jim. I do indeed have this inclination. In fact my original intent was to use the simple pendulum to learn and apply the Runge- Kutta Method. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Might your suggestion be a variation of this? Cheers, Roger On Oct 31, 2005, at 2:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have the inclination, you might want to tackle the large amplitude pendulum. There is no nice analytic solution but you could numerically integrate the equation of motion. Something like this: Let A represent the angle. Then you would do a numerical integration with repeat loop set the location of the pendulum to R,A --using radial coordinates add c * sine(A) to the angular velocity -- where c depends on the mass, L and g --The angular acceleration is proportional to the torque which is proportional to sine(A) --For small amplitudes sine(A) = A, in radial coordinates add the angular velocity to A end repeat loop Where I have assumed the time interval between loops is one second, so that dt =1 It would be interesting to show how the period (determined by the number of loops between changes in sign of the angular velocity) depends on the amplitude. Show that the clock slows down as it runs down, i.e. the period decreases with decreasing amplitude--albeit slowly; it is a second order effect in the amplitude. That's why pendulum clocks work so well. Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: ANN: Simple Pendulum Simulation
Thanks, Jim. I do indeed have this inclination. In fact my original intent was to use the simple pendulum to learn and apply the Runge- Kutta Method. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Might your suggestion be a variation of this? Cheers, Roger Roger, Actually I was thinking of something even simpler than the Runge-Kutta approximation. Using the Euler approximation, the repeat loop to generate the pendulum motion is really simple and looks like this: repeat until the mouseClick setRA r,270+psi -- Polar coordinates; 270 so that the pendulum hands DOWN add -c*psi to angVel --Add angular acceleration to the angular velocity add angVel to psi --Add angular velocity to the angle end repeat where psi is the angular displacement of the pendulum. I am using Turtle Graphics, but I think you get the idea. To see this in action, put this in the message box: go stack url http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ControlGraphics.rev; and go to the last card. Control graphics is a variation on TG. It allows you to identify any control as a Turtle which not only responds to Transcript, but also to TG. So you can create a circle graphic and call it pendulum and then talk to the circle like it was a turtle, i.e. forward 10, right 90, setXY 20,30, setRA 200,35 etc. Polar coordinates are particularly useful in the pendulum problem I tried to show the dependence of the period on the amplitude but no luck so far. Maybe Runga-Kutta is required. The period depends on the amplitude (to second order in the amplitude) in this way: T = T(0) (1 + A^2/16) where A is the angular amplitude in radians. Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: ANN: Simple Pendulum Simulation
A simple simulation of a simple pendulum . . . revOnlin - User Spaces - RogerG or Education. Cheers, Roger Roger, Nice job! Good interface. If you have the inclination, you might want to tackle the large amplitude pendulum. There is no nice analytic solution but you could numerically integrate the equation of motion. Something like this: Let A represent the angle. Then you would do a numerical integration with repeat loop set the location of the pendulum to R,A --using radial coordinates add c * sine(A) to the angular velocity -- where c depends on the mass, L and g --The angular acceleration is proportional to the torque which is proportional to sine(A) --For small amplitudes sine(A) = A, in radial coordinates add the angular velocity to A end repeat loop Where I have assumed the time interval between loops is one second, so that dt =1 It would be interesting to show how the period (determined by the number of loops between changes in sign of the angular velocity) depends on the amplitude. Show that the clock slows down as it runs down, i.e. the period decreases with decreasing amplitude--albeit slowly; it is a second order effect in the amplitude. That's why pendulum clocks work so well. Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
ANN: Simple Pendulum Simulation
A simple simulation of a simple pendulum . . . revOnlin - User Spaces - RogerG or Education. Cheers, Roger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
