Fall 2009/JonathanS
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Problem
A simple pendulum with a length L = 0.5m is pulled back and released from an initial angle . Find it's location at t = 3s.
Solution
Assuming no damping and a small angle(), the equation for the motion of a simple pendulum can be written as
Substituting values we get
Remember the identities
Now we can take the Laplace Transform to change the second order differential equation, from the t domain, into a simple linear equation, from the s domain, that's much easier to work with
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