Numerical study of the elastic pendulum on the rotating Earth

DOI10.5402/2012/806231MaRDI QIDQ764772zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Aleš Stanovnik, Borut Jurcic-Zlobec

Publication date 14 March 2012

Published in ISRN Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.5402/2012/806231

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of particles and systems of particles (35Q70) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Strings (74K05)

Review text

Summary: The elastic pendulum is a simple physical system represented by nonlinear differential equations. Analytical solutions for the bob trajectories on the rotating Earth may be obtained in two limiting cases: for the ideally elastic pendulum with zero unstressed string length and for the Foucault pendulum with an inextensible string. The precession period of the oscillation plane, as seen by the local observer on the rotating Earth, is 24 hours in the first case and has a well-known latitude dependence in the second case. In the present work, we have obtained numerical solutions of the nonlinear equations for different string elasticities in order to study the transition from one precession period to the other. It is found that the transition is abrupt and that it occurs for a quite small perturbation of the ideally elastic pendulum, that is, for the unstressed string length equal to about \(10^{-4}\) of the equilibrium length due to the weight of the bob.

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