Double Pendulum Demonstration and Simulation

From the Analytical Mechanics class - This video is old (2003), but still interesting! This video describes a numerical project on the double pendulum system. A double pendulum is a simple system that can display chaotic behavior: A small change in the initial conditions can lead to large changes in the later behavior. This was a project from Evan Salim '03 who wrote the MatLab code to predict future behavior and also made the physical demonstration in the Ithaca College machine shop.