Read Lab info parts 1 & 2:

Assignment

Daedalon Manual

Intro to chaotic pendulum

Some Mathematica notebooks for the lab

Interpolating Functions Tutorial

Lyapunov exponents

Visualizing Chaos

Fitting damped oscillator

Daedalon data file

Student written simulation

Papers

Blackburn and Baker, Comparison of commercial chaotic pendulums, AJP 66 (1998).

Baker, Control of the chaotic driven pendulum, AJP 63 (1995).

Baker, Inverting Chaos, CHAOS 6 (1996)

Baker, Pendulums, Am. J. Phys. 74 (2006)

Blackburn and Gronbech-Jensen, Phase diffusion in a chaotic pendulum, PRE 53 (1996).

Blackburn, Driven Pendulum, Rev. Sci. Inst (1989)

Laws, Oscillations and Chaos, Am. J. Physics 72 (2004)

Baker and Gollub, Chaotic Dynamics, chapters 1 through 4

Baker and Blackburn, The Pendulum, chapters 2, 3, 6.

Student Reports

Chaotic Pendulum student report (Colorado State)

Chaotic Pendulum student report (Maryland)

Chaotic Pendulum student report (Brandeis)

Chaotic Pendulum student report (Brandeis)

Last, but not least, student report (Brandeis)

Bibliography

References on nonlinear dynamics of the pendulum

References on Controlling Chaos, Gauthier AJP 71 (2003)

Simulations

http://www.elmer.unibas.ch/pendulum/spend.htm

http://www.elmer.unibas.ch/pendulum/index.html

http://www.myphysicslab.com/pendulum2.html

http://www.phy.davidson.edu/StuHome/chgreene/Chaos/Pendulum/pendulum_content_frame.htm