Xiangdong Feng, Changhong Lu, Jurgen Schulte, Zengxu Shan, Gentong Liu
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Abstract
The pendulum wave apparatus exhibits cyclic pendulum patterns, including wave-like motion and pendulums alignments. This work presents a complete analytical solution to the times and numbers of pendulum alignment, which is shown to be a subset of Thomae's function. Based on the properties of this function and basic number theory, a comprehensive analysis of pendulum patterns is presented.
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The mission of the American Journal of Physics (AJP) is to publish articles on the educational and cultural aspects of physics that are useful, interesting, and accessible to a diverse audience of physics students, educators, and researchers. Our audience generally reads outside their specialties to broaden their understanding of physics and to expand and enhance their pedagogical toolkits at the undergraduate and graduate levels.