Pendulum modeling paper

Damped pendulum phase portrait

How can the behaviour of a pendulum be modelled mathematically?

This was the title of my IB extended essay, a 42-page paper exploring different mathematical and computational models to describe the behaviour of a pendulum.

My supervisor Paulina Szymczak-Ønnerstad deserves a special mention here due to her patience, her advice and her thorough feedback on the drafts.

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