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Multiple pendulum and nonuniform distribution of average kinetic energy
Tetsuro Konishi1, Tatsuo Yanagita2
1College of Engineering, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-8501, Japan.
Abstract:
Multiple pendulums are investigated numerically and analytically to clarify the nonuniformity of average kinetic energies of particles. The nonuniformity is attributed to the system having holonomic constraints and it is consistent with the generalized principle of the equipartition of energy. With the use of explicit expression for Hamiltonian of a multiple pendulum, approximate expressions for temporal and statistical average of kinetic energies are obtained, where the average energies are expressed in terms of masses of particles. In a typical case, the average kinetic energy is large for particles near the end of the pendulum and small for those near the root. Moreover, the exact analytic expressions for the average kinetic energy of the particles are obtained for a double pendulum.
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