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Pendulum waves computed using the differential equation d^2(theta)/dt^2 = omega^2 * sin(theta) - gamma * sgn[d(theta)/dt] * [L * d(theta)/dt]^2.

All the pendulums started at a distance of 0.231 m from their equilibrium point and gamma was set to 0.05. The small amplitude periods of the pendulums were chosen so that after 60 seconds the number of cycles for each pendulum varied from 32 to 44 exactly in steps of one cycle. The frame rate is 60 per second. The nonlinearity alters the period of the oscilations depending on the amplitudes. With weak dampening the amplitudes do not change much and the amount of dampening per cycle does not change much over relatively short periods of time but a Stokes dampening term proportional to - d(theta)/dt would probably be more accurate, theoretically, for lower speeds.

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