A pendulum with a moving support point
A pendulum with a moving support point Gabriela Gonz´alez September 12, 2006 Consider a pendulum with mass m hanging from a rod of length l. The support point moves horizontally with a known function R(t) = X(t)ˆi + Y(t)ˆj. We can use the angle θ between the vertical and the pendulum rod as a generalized coordinate, the only one