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From: goodrich@mris.larc.nasa.gov (Mike Goodrich)
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: Re: double pendulum. etc.
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Date: 15 Apr 91 18:49:45 GMT
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In article <70001@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> ghanem@venus.eng.buffalo.edu (roger g ghanem) writes:
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>the double pendulum is a classical problem in dynamics.
>any book on the subject will have the development of the

Just a comment to say that this problem is a classic example of the utility
of the Lagrangian formulation of dynamics and one should expect to see it
phrased as such instead of the more basic F = m a.

mike goodrich
goodrich@uxv.larc.nasa.gov