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Application to the movement of a simple pendulum

The equation of motion is

If we consider only small oscillations of the pendulum, we can approximate sinq by q.

We get

Whose solution is

Here we consider a pendulum having no initial velocity, so that

q = q(0)coswt

 

Derivation