Precession of the elastic pendulum on the rotating Earth

2024/11/11 by Zlobec, Borut Jurčič
#Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.08074

Abstract

We present a numerical solution of the nonlinear differential equation for a pendulum with an elastic string on the rotating Earth, for different values of string stiffness at different geographic latitudes.

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