[CSC 415] Found My Error

[Andrew J. Pounds]

So in class today when I was plotting the solution for the period of the 
pendulum it should have been 2 sec.  It was not because I gave you the 
sheet where I was playing with the Mathematic code which necessitated 
the use of the elliptic integrals.   In other words, in the sheet I gave 
you the initial position was π2  -\frac{\pi}{2} - which is the region 
where elliptic integrals are required to get the period correct.  If you 
reduce the angle down to even π 4\frac{\pi}{4 you will get a period that 
is very close to 2 sec.

We'll play more on Friday.  Thanks for being patient.



-- 
*/Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D./*
/Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science/
/Director of the Computational Science Program/
/Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627/
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