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A 3D pendulum consists of a rigid body, supported at a fixed pivot, with three rotational degrees of freedom. The pendulum is acted on by a gravitational force. 3D pendulum dynamics have been much studied in integrable cases that arise when certain physical symmetry assumptions are made. This paper treats the non-integrable case of the 3D pendulum dynamics when the rigid body is asymmetric and the center of mass is distinct from the pivot location. 3D pendulum full and reduced models are introduced and used to study important features of the nonlinear dynamics: conserved quantities, equilibria, relative equilibria, invariant manifolds, local dynamics, and presence of chaotic motions. The paper provides a unified treatment of the 3D pendulum dynamics that includes prior results and new results expressed in the framework of geometric mechanics. These results demonstrate the rich and complex dynamics of the 3D pendulum.
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Communicated by R. Sepulchre.
N.C., T.L. and N.H.M. have been supported in part by NSF Grant ECS-0244977 and CMS-0555797. T.L. and M.L. have been supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-0726263, DMS-0747659 and DMS-0747659.
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Chaturvedi, N.A., Lee, T., Leok, M. et al. Nonlinear Dynamics of the 3D Pendulum. J Nonlinear Sci 21, 3–32 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-010-9078-6
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