Breakdown to chaotic motion of a forced, damped, spherical pendulum (Q2366497)

This is a numerical study of the forced, damped spherical pendulum. The results obtained by different numerical methods, mainly, by application of truncated Fourier series of the solutions, are compared to experimental results and conclusions drawn by \textit{J. W. Miles} [Q. Appl. Math. 20, 21-32 (1962; Zbl 0108.186)] and others. ``The major difference between the oscillations investigated in the coplanar case and those described here is in their magnitude. In the coplanar case, the oscillations rise above the pivot before symmetry-breaking and period- doubling occur and pass over the pivot when chaotic oscillations occur. The oscillations in the nonplanar case here lie close to the downward vertical with the symmetry-breaking, period-doubling and breakdown to chaos occuring in the modulation to the oscillations rather than with the oscillations themselves''.