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The rocking rigid pendulum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Maurice N. Brearley
Maurice N. Brearley*
Affiliation:
85 Dandarriga Drive, Clifton Springs, Victoria 3222, Australia
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This device could be a useful teaching aid. It can easily be built by students who like to use their hands; its behaviour can easily be examined quantitatively and compared with theoretical predictions; the mathematics required to analyse its motion is not at all advanced; and it provides a good exercise in mathematical modelling. The problem appears to have been overlooked in books on mechanics, which is surprising in view of the simplicity of the device and of the mathematics associated with it.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 74 , Issue 468 , June 1990 , pp. 120 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1990

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