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DoublePendulum

Description

Famous chaotic double pendulum (planar) with two point masses connected by massless rods. The ordering of variables is [θ₁, ω₁, θ₂, ω₂]. Shows sensitive dependence and rich energy-dependent phase space structure. The auxiliary variables φ = θ₂ - θ₁ and Δ = (M1 + M2) - M2 cos² φ appear in the equations.

Parameters
NameValueUnit
G 10.0
L1 1.0
L2 1.0
M1 1.0
M2 1.0
State variables
NameInitial value
theta1 1.5707963267948966
omega1 0.0
theta2 0.0
omega2 0.5