Monday, 18 September 2017

homework and exercises - Period of simple pendulum accelerated horizontally


I'm confused about simple pendulum problems where the pendulum is accelerated horizontally of anyway not vertically with acceleration $\vec{A}$.


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$m\vec{g} + \vec{T}-m \vec{A} =m \vec{a}$


So


$\begin{cases} m l \ddot{\theta} = - mg sin(\theta)+m A cos(\theta) \\ m \dot{\theta} ^2 l = T - mg cos(\theta)-m A sin(\theta) \end{cases}$


From the first equation, on the tangential coordinate,


$ l \ddot{\theta} = - g sin(\theta)+ A cos(\theta)$


Which is for small angles


$ l \ddot{\theta} = - g \theta+ A $


And therefore the period of small oscillations should still be $\tau=\sqrt{\frac{l}{g}} 2\pi$


While of course it is different, but I don't see the mistake in what I wrote here.




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