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Double Pendulum - equation of angle with respect to time [closed]

First of all I am in grade 12, last year of my IB diploma programme. I'm familiar with derivatives and integrals but nothing as complex as these Lagrangians, Hamiltonians or other university-level ...
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Will double or triple pendulums sync when they are on a platform they can affect?

what i am talking about is something along the lines of this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8 where 30 metronomes sync themselves on a table. Will the same happen with double or ...
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Physical interpretation of the canonical scalar product in linear dynamics

Consider a unforced, undamped, linear mechanical system with a finite number of degrees of freedom. Its (second order) dynamical equations can be gathered in a matrix equation $$M\ddot X + K X=0$$ ...
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