Determine period of a pendulum

calculate period from length and mass of pendulum, for arbitrary initial amplitudes

computational task, nonlinear task

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Contained entities

gravitational acceleration	$\overrightarrow{g}\equiv -\frac{GM}{r^2}\overrightarrow{r}$	parameter
		numeric value 9.81
	$M$ represents earth mass
	$r$ represents earth radius
	$G$ represents gravitational constant
	$g$ represents gravitational acceleration
vibration period (harmonic)	$T\equiv \frac{2\pi }{\omega }$	output
	$\omega$ represents vibration frequency (harmonic)
	$T$ represents vibration period (harmonic)
pendular amplitude (initial value)		input
		minimum value 3
		maximum value 10
		number of values 101
length of pendulum		input
		minimum value 0.1
		maximum value 2.0
		number of values 101
mathematical pendulum period	$T=4\sqrt{\frac{\ell }{2g}}{\int }_0^{{\varphi }_0}\frac{d\varphi }{\sqrt{\cos \varphi -\cos {\varphi }_0}}$
	$T$ represents vibration period (harmonic)
	$\ell$ represents length of pendulum
	$g$ represents gravitational acceleration
	$\varphi$ represents pendular amplitude
	${\varphi }_0$ represents pendular amplitude (initial value)

References

An accurate formula for the period of a simple pendulum oscillating beyond the small angle regime

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