This is a requested post. Clearly, I do requests. The idea here is that I am going to give all the details needed to determine the equation of motion (and then model it) for a basic pendulum ...

That's a pendulum in motion! On today's MOSI Monday, we're looking at pendulum and angular momentum! Ian Reed, manager of academic & youth programs at MOSI, shows us how gravity and energy work ...

f = twice angular velocity of the earth times sine of latitude. (1) In the northern hemisphere this force is directed horiz- ontally to the right of the particle's motion, e.g. for a particle ...

If you march sufficiently deep into the wilderness of control theory, you’ll no doubt encounter the inverted pendulum problem. These balancing acts have emerged with a number of variants over… ...