3D rotational pendulum also known as Furuta's pendulum by Francisco Esquembre

[lookang]

3D rotational pendulum also known as Furuta's pendulum by Francisco Esquembre

Rotational Pendulum
This simulation displays a 3D rotational pendulum, also known as Furuta's pendulum.

though i just add this for Paco since his copy http://fem.um.es/Ejs/EjsExamples3.3/Simulations/RotationalPendulum.html
is not highly search-able at Google

Embed a running copy of this simulation
<applet code='users.sgeducation.lookang.RotationalPendulum_pkg.RotationalPendulumApplet.class' archive='http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/ejsuser/14019/ejs_RotationalPendulum.jar' name='RotationalPendulum7953' id='RotationalPendulum7953' width='439' height='404' mayscript=true><param name='draggable' value='true'></applet>
Embed a running copy link(show simulation in a popuped window)
<a href='http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/msg.php?smfejs=7953' target='smfejs'>Run simulation</a>

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Press the Alt key and the left mouse button to drag the applet off the browser and onto the desktop. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Taiwan License

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[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

The above simulation can be found at RotationalPendulum

[ahmedelshfie]

Also a modified version can be found at Simple Examples for beginner who want to learn EJS