Simulation of a pendulum system with GNU Octave
Abstract
A proposal is presented to consider the study of some ordinary differential equations that model mechanical systems using animation as a education aid. For the animations, mechanical systems composed of simple and/or damped harmonic oscillators were chosen. The animations are made by superimposing images obtained from the solution of the linear differential equations that model the corresponding dynamics.
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