Monthly Archives: January 2017

Periods of Jacobi elliptic functions – Part 1

This one is another purely technical post. The point is that I am not very happy with all the existing expositions about Jacobi elliptic functions. I want to organize it my way which, I am sure, is better than all … Continue reading

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Period of a pendulum

Commenting my statement that “we can now return to the imaginary time period of the pendulum” in my last post Elliptic addition theorem, Bjab aked “What about the real time period?” And indeed, we did not quite finish the case … Continue reading

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Elliptic addition theorem

Yesterday was a day with no apparent progress. Some days are diamonds (living spiraling force) some days are stones (elliptic) – I wrote. And indeed, it was elliptic stone. But “apparently no progress” is not the same as “no progress … Continue reading

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