Phase portrait

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Potential energy and phase portrait of a simple pendulum. Note that the x-axis, being angular, wraps onto itself after every 2π radians.
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Potential energy and phase portrait of a simple pendulum. Note that the x-axis, being angular, wraps onto itself after every 2π radians.

A phase portrait is a geometric representation of the trajectories of a dynamical system in the phase plane.

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