Jason Thomas

I like to make stuff

June 26, 2023 @ 10:40

Using GNU Octave to numerically find a solution for a system of harmonic oscillators

I recently completed the course Modelling with Differential Equations at RMIT.

I got pretty interested in harmonic oscillators during my mid-year holiday from uni so I made this video.

Please note that at ~1:25 I claimed that a pendulum's governing equation is for a simple harmonic oscillator. This is true at small angles only, because a simple harmonic oscillator moves in a linear fashion, and this is only approximately true where angles of \theta are small.

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