Large Amplitude Pendulum
The usual solution for the simple pendulum depends upon the approximation
![](images/pend10.gif)
which gives equation
![](images/pendl.gif)
but for angles for which that approximation
does not hold, one must deal with the more
complicated equation
![](images/pendl2.gif)
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The detailed solution leads to an elliptic integral.
That solution can be approximated by a series, for
which the first three terms are
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