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Chapter 3 - Computational Physics
Oscillatory Motion and Chaos
Simple pendulum -- Euler method
Oscillatory motion of a simple pendulum - a simple harmonic oscillator - calculated using the Euler method. This also illustrates the problems with using the Euler method for an oscillatory type of problem.
Nonlinear pendulum -- Euler-Cromer method
Motion of a damped, nonlinear pendulum, calculated using the Euler-Cromer method. Can be used to study the chaotic behavior of this system.