n-pendulum

An n-pendulum MATLAB GUI for computational physics class GUI project assignment.

Input

• Pendulum amount (n)
• Gravity constant (g)
• Segment length (l)
• Initial angle (theta)
• Time elapsed (t)

Output

• Animation with n-pendulum plot (left plot)
• Theta vs time plot (right plot)

References

• Simplified analytical calculations by Gaffar (Link to paper)
• Small Oscillations of the n-Pendulum and the “Hanging Rope” Limit n → ∞ (Link to paper)

Credits

by Gaffar, Dedy, Eufrat and Bene.