Internal resonance of a detuned spherical pendulum (Q1063430): Difference between revisions

The free oscillations of a slightly detuned spherical pendulum, for which te difference between the natural frequencies in two transverse planes of symmetry is small, are determined by retaining fourth-order (in the angular displacement), but neglecting sixth-order, terms in the Lagrangian, positing slowly modulated sinusoids for the displacements, and integrating the resulting Hamiltonian system.