RE: Theoretical understanding ( of pendulums )

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Original poster: "Stephen Mathieson" <s.mathieson-at-charter-dot-net> 

Not in Giancoli volumes 1 or 2 but CRC handbook (54th edition) touches on
compound pendulums but their description doesn't sound like the same thing.

Stephen A. Mathieson

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Original poster: "Ralph Zekelman" <gridleak-at-bluemarble-dot-net>



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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Jim,

I have searched for sometime looking for a derivation of the equations
for the coupled pendulum. The standard texts like Sears and Zemansky
or Resnick and Halliday don't have it. Do you know of a source for the
derivation?

Ralph Zekelman

The energy stored in one pendulmn will transfer to the other and then
back,
periodically.

(unless you were really exact and managed to make each pendulmn
precisely
the same, and the connections were perfectly symmetrical, etc....)