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« on: March 15, 2022, 11:06:09 pm »
Hey MasterGy
Just wanted to let you know I read your response thoroughly - thanks for your interest in all this. Ya know, I was going to study something altogether different next, but I think you've convinced me to stay on the pendulum case, and generalize the work to handle N arms instead of 2. If opportunity permits, I'll try to let the masses and pendulum lengths be variable rather than homogeneous.
On a completely separate note, there is another approach using the "method of constraints", which may end up being better, but our present tools are too blunt to do this nicely. That is, I would prefer to have a finely-polished package for inverting matrices and doing other maneuvers in linear algebra.
For now though, I'll see if I can extend what I've already done for N links. Stay tuned.