VISUALIZING CHAOS IN DYNAMICS OF DOUBLE PENDULUM

M. O. Olayiwola (Nigeria), A. W. Gbolagade (Nigeria), F. A. Hammed (Nigeria) and I. A. Idowu (Nigeria)

Received November 21, 2007

Abstract

Object-oriented programming makes building large software systems easily, but understanding and analyzing the real-time behavior of these systems is nontrivial. Fortunately, with the help of visualization tools, this problem can be simplified. However, most existing visualization tools are not on-line and there is no way to monitor the system behavior easily. Therefore, arose to the development of tool, an interactive visualization environment, which provides an infrastructure for understanding and interpreting chaotic behavior. In this paper, we present an overview of the infrastructure and describe each component in relation to a double pendulum. We show that the kinematics of the double pendulum is chaotic for specified values.

Keywords and phrases: dynamical system, kinematics, chaos.