Closed form integration of the rotating plane pendulum nonlinear equation

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Giovanni Mingari Scarpello
Daniele Ritelli

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The article deals with the nonlinear differential equation of the frictionless motion of a heavy pendulum swinging in a vertical plane which rotates at a fixed angular speed. The authors focused on its closed form integration by means of the Jacobi elliptic functions. This research took its origin by an autonomous work of the authors; this subject was also developed by [3], who did a treatment by far different from ours.

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Scarpello, G. M., & Ritelli, D. (2003). Closed form integration of the rotating plane pendulum nonlinear equation. Tamkang Journal of Mathematics, 34(4), 327–350. https://doi.org/10.5556/j.tkjm.34.2003.235
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Daniele Ritelli

Dipartimento di matematica per le scienze economiche e sociali, viale Filopanti, 5 40127 Bologna Italy.

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