Consider a car that travels between points A and B. The car's average speed can be greater than the magnitude of its average vel
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The equation of motion of a pendulum is:
where it its length and
is the gravitational acceleration. Notice that the mass is absent from the equation! This is quite hard to solve, but for <em>small</em> angles (
), we can use:
Additionally, let us define:
We can now write:
The solution to this differential equation is:
where and
are constants to be determined using the initial conditions. Notice that they will not have any influence on the period, since it is given simply by:
This justifies that the period depends only on the pendulum's length.