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On a periodically forced, weakly damped pendulum. Part 1: Applied torque

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Peter J. Bryant and
John W. Miles
Peter J. Bryant
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, christchurch, New Zealand.
John W. Miles
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, U.S.A.
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Coplanar forced oscillations of a mechanical system such as a seismometer or a fluid in a tank are modelled by the coplanar motion of periodically forced, weakly damped pendulum. We consider the phase-locked solutions of the differential equation governing planar motion of a weakly damped pendulum driven by a periodic torque. Sinusoidal approximations previously obtained for downward and inverted oscillations at small values of the dimensionless driving amplitude ε are continued into numerical solutions at larger values of ε. Resonance curves and stability boundaries are presented for downward and inverted oscillations of periods T, 2T, and 4T, where T(≡ 2π/ω) is the dimensionless forcing period. The symmetry-breaking, period-doubling sequences of oscillatory motion are found to occur in bands on the (ω, ε) plane, with the amplitudes of stable oscillations in one band differing by multiples of about π from those in the other bands, a structure similar to that of energy levels in wave mechanics. The sinusoidal approximations for symmetric T-periodic oscillations prove to be surprisingly accurate at the larger values of ε, the banded structure being related to the periodicity of the J0 Bessel function.

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Research Article
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The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , July 1990, pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1990

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