Experimental study of chaos in a driven pendulum

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(87)90238-7MaRDI QIDQ1819438zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James A. Blackburn, Zhou-jing Yang, S. Vik, H. J. T. Smith, M. A. H. Nerenberg

Publication date 1987

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(87)90238-7

zbMATH Keywords

driven, damped pendulumHysteresisPoincaré sectionspower spectrastate diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

Review text

Experimental results are reported for a driven, damped pendulum in which steady and/or alternating torques were applied by means of a modified brushless, slotless linear motor. The pendulum coordinate was measured with an angular resolver which, in combination with an integrated circuit resolver-to-digital converter, produced readings with fourteen-bit precision. Hysteresis and ac induced steps are observed, as expected, in the torque-velocity characteristics for the pendulum. Poincaré sections, power spectra and a state diagram confirm the existence of separate regions of periodic and chaotic behaviour. This system is of particular interest because it can also serve as a mechanical analog of a current biased Josephson junction.

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