A few days back, I posted some #AnimatedGifs of the exact solution for a large-amplitude undamped, unforced #Pendulum. I then thought to complete the study to include the case when it has been fed enough #energy to allow it just to undergo #FullRotations, rather than just #oscillations. Well, it turns out that it is “a bit more complicated than I first expected” but I finally managed it.
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Here we see three identical pendulums, oscillating independently. The red and purple ones are vibrating with small amplitudes and so their periods are nearly the same. But the blue one is undergoing what would be considered to be very large amplitude oscillations and has a significantly longer period. In fact, as the amplitude approaches π radians, the period increases without bound and approaches infinity.
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The above is only strictly true for “small” amplitudes. If the #pendulum is subject to large amplitudes, it is no longer governed by the simple linear differential equations alluded to above. Given that the rod remains rigid and no energy is dissipated, the pendulum #equations may still be solved exactly, though they are now #nonlinear.
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In elementary #mechanics we are taught about the #SimplePendulum, which is modelled as a point #mass hanging via a rigid #rod or #string of a given length, under uniform #gravity. This simple model is also useful in introducing #OrdinaryDifferentialEquations and helps us to understand #SimpleHarmonicMotion.
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We’re having a #Soliton sale over here! Get yours quick! Seriously, though, this is a quick #animation of the #SolitonInteraction surface – the solution of the #Korteweg-deVries #Eauation showing (x,t,u(x,t)) giving you an all-round view.
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I posted on #Soliton interactions in the #Korteweg-deVries #Equation yesterday with an #Animation of how two #SolitaryWaves interact. The #PhaseShift experienced by both can also be seen in a static #3D plot with time, t, plotted on one axis. You should be able to see a “dog-leg” in the trajectory of each wave after it interacts with the other.
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A subtlety probably difficult to spot in the animation is that the interaction of the two waves leaves them phase shifted, with the taller wave gaining position, while the shorter one loses it. This further animation shows the interactions again (purple) but I’ve also shown what would happen if each wave moved without interaction with the other (red and blue).
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Here is an example taken from Solitons: an introduction by Drazin & Johnson, where taller wave overtakes a shorter one moving in the same direction.
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When you start looking at #NonlinearWaves, some of these principles no longer apply. For example, in the Korteweg-de Vries equation, which has #Soliton or solutions, you can no longer simply add two solutions together as the resulting function would not be a solution of the governing equation. Waves of different heights travel at different velocities, with the taller waves moving faster than the shorter ones. Instead, they interact #nonlinearly.
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Also, waves of different heights travel at different velocities, with the taller waves moving faster than the shorter ones.
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In #FluidMechanics, things like #SurfaceWaves are often modelled using #LinearEquations, which give rise to phenomena such as the principle of #LinearSuperposition, where you can take two or more distinct solutions and simply add them together to get a new solution. Solutions are also periodic and can be decomposed into sinusoidal functions.
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(Applied?) maths terminology question:
In the context of signal analysis (doing things like Fourier transforms) you might have some variable (say, t) that you're treating as being equivalent to time and you're interested in some periodic function of t (say, sin(t)) with wavelength 2pi on the t scale.
It's common to (informally?) use the term "phase" to refer to the value of t within the first cycle of the periodic function. In that usage: phase = t modulo 2pi
By extension, I have seen people refer to location anywhere on t (not just the first cycle) as "phase", but this seems to me to be ambiguous, and not necessarily helpful, terminology.
My question is: Given that the variable t is possibly something much more abstract and not necessarily "time", is there some accepted terminology for referring to the variable t in this context?
(This is possibly a non-issue for pure mathematicians because they might never talk about phase and use only symbolic representations without using descriptive words. If so, I would be seeking terminology from some applied discipline where this kind of generic descriptive labelling is used.)
In brief, if I wanted to say:
phase = x modulo 2pi
because I am talking about periodic functions of x, is there some generic descriptive term for variables like x (e.g. time-like)?
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