Pulsation and precession of the resonant swinging spring

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2003.09.043zbMATH Open1098.70540arXivnlin/0303038OpenAlexW2138695432MaRDI QIDQ1433697FDOQ1433697

Authors: Peter Lynch, Conor Houghton 

Publication date: 1 July 2004

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: When the frequencies of the elastic and pendular oscillations of an elastic pendulum or swinging spring are in the ratio two-to-one, there is a regular exchange of energy between the two modes of oscillation. We refer to this phenomenon as pulsation. Between the horizontal excursions, or pulses, the spring undergoes a change of azimuth which we call the precession angle. The pulsation and stepwise precession are the characteristic features of the dynamics of the swinging spring. The modulation equations for the small-amplitude resonant motion of the system are the well-known three-wave equations. We use Hamiltonian reduction to determine a complete analytical solution. The amplitudes and phases are expressed in terms of both Weierstrass and Jacobi elliptic functions. The strength of the pulsation may be computed from the invariants of the equations. Several analytical formulas are found for the precession angle. We deduce simplified approximate expressions, in terms of elementary functions, for the pulsation amplitude and precession angle and demonstrate their high accuracy by numerical experiments. Thus, for given initial conditions, we can describe the envelope dynamics without solving the equations. Conversely, given the parameters which determine the envelope, we can specify initial conditions which, to a high level of accuracy, yield this envelope.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0303038

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zbMATH Keywords

MonodromyPrecessionElastic pendulumNonlinear resonancePulsationSwinging springThree-wave equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H45) Nonlinear dynamics in mechanics (70K99)

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