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## Hamiltonian equations for double and multiple planar pendulums, and general quadratic form velocity dependence.on

Posted by peeterjoot on October 19, 2009

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In the following section I started off with the goal of treating two connected pendulums moving in a plane. Even setting up the Hamiltonians for this turned out to be a bit messy, requiring a matrix inversion. Tackling the problem in the guise of using a more general quadratic form (which works for the two particle as well as $N$ particle cases) seemed like it would actually be simpler than using the specifics from the angular velocity dependence of the specific pendulum problem. Once the Hamiltonian equations were found in this form, an attempt to do the first order Taylor expansion as done for the single planar pendulum and the spherical pendulum was performed. This turned out to be a nasty mess and is seen to not be particularily illuminating. I didn’t know that is how it would turn out ahead of time since I had my fingers crossed for some sort of magic simplification once the final substuitions were made. If such a simplification is possible, the procedure to do so is not obvious.

Although the Hamiltonian equations for a spherical pendulum have been considered previously, for the double pendulum case it seems prudent to avoid temptation, and to first see what happens with a simpler first step, a planar double pendulum.

Setting up coordinates $x$ axis down, and $y$ axis to the left with $i = \hat{\mathbf{x}} \hat{\mathbf{y}}$ we have for the position of the first mass $m_1$, at angle ${\theta_1}$ and length $l_1$

\begin{aligned}z_1 = \hat{\mathbf{x}} l_1 e^{i{\theta_1}}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(180)

If the second mass, dangling from this is at an angle ${\theta_2}$ from the $x$ axis, its position is

\begin{aligned}z_2 = z_1 + \hat{\mathbf{x}} l_2 e^{i{\theta_2}}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(181)

We need the velocities, and their magnitudes. For $z_1$ this is

\begin{aligned}{\left\lvert{\dot{z}_1}\right\rvert}^2 = {l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(182)

For the second mass

\begin{aligned}\dot{z}_2 = \hat{\mathbf{x}} i \left( l_1 {\dot{\theta}_1} e^{i{\theta_1}} + l_2 {\dot{\theta}_2} e^{i{\theta_2}} \right)\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(183)

Taking conjugates and multiplying out we have

\begin{aligned}{\left\lvert{\dot{z}_2}\right\rvert}^2 ={l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2+ 2 l_1 l_2 {\dot{\theta}_1} {\dot{\theta}_2} \cos({\theta_1} - {\theta_2})+{l_2}^2 {\dot{\theta}_2}^2\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(184)

That’s all that we need for the Kinetic terms in the Lagrangian. Now we need the height for the $m g h$ terms. If we set the reference point at the lowest point for the double pendulum system, the height of the first particle is

\begin{aligned}h_1 = l_2 + l_1 (1 -\cos{\theta_1})\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(185)

For the second particle, the distance from the horizontal is

\begin{aligned}d = l_1 \cos{\theta_1} + l_2 \cos{\theta_2}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(186)

So the total distance from the reference point is

\begin{aligned}h_2 = l_1 (1 - \cos{\theta_1}) + l_2 (1 -\cos{\theta_2})\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(187)

We now have the Lagrangian

\begin{aligned}\mathcal{L}' & =\frac{1}{{2}} m_1 {l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2+ \frac{1}{{2}} m_2 \left({l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2+ 2 l_1 l_2 {\dot{\theta}_1} {\dot{\theta}_2} \cos({\theta_1} - {\theta_2})+{l_2}^2 {\dot{\theta}_2}^2\right) \\ & -m_1 g (l_2 + l_1 (1 -\cos{\theta_1}))-m_2 g ( l_1 (1 - \cos{\theta_1}) + l_2 (1 -\cos{\theta_2}) )\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(188)

Dropping constant terms (effectively choosing a difference reference point for the potential) and rearranging a bit, also writing $M = m_1 + m_2$, we have the simpler Lagrangian

\begin{aligned}\mathcal{L} & =\frac{1}{{2}} M {l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2 + \frac{1}{{2}} m_2 {l_2}^2 {\dot{\theta}_2}^2+ m_2 l_1 l_2 {\dot{\theta}_1} {\dot{\theta}_2} \cos({\theta_1} - {\theta_2})+M l_1 g \cos{\theta_1}+m_2 l_2 g \cos{\theta_2}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(190)

The conjugate momenta that we need for the Hamiltonian are

\begin{aligned}P_{\theta_1} & =M {l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}+ m_2 l_1 l_2 {\dot{\theta}_2} \cos({\theta_1} - {\theta_2}) \\ P_{\theta_2} & =m_2 {l_2}^2 {\dot{\theta}_2}+ m_2 l_1 l_2 {\dot{\theta}_1} \cos({\theta_1} - {\theta_2})\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(191)

Unlike any of the other simpler Hamiltonian systems considered so far, the coupling between the velocities means that we have a system of equations that we must first invert before we can even express the Hamiltonian in terms of the respective momenta.

That is

\begin{aligned}\begin{bmatrix}P_{\theta_1} \\ P_{\theta_2}\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}M {l_1}^2 & m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos({\theta_1} - {\theta_2}) \\ m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos({\theta_1} - {\theta_2}) & m_2 {l_2}^2\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}{\dot{\theta}_1} \\ {\dot{\theta}_2}\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(193)

While this is easily invertible, doing so and attempting to substitute it back, results in an unholy mess (albeit perhaps one that can be simplified). Is there a better way? A possibly promising way is motivated by observing that this matrix, a function of the angular difference $\delta = {\theta_1} - {\theta_2}$, looks like it is something like a moment of inertia tensor. If we call this $\mathcal{I}$, and write

\begin{aligned}\boldsymbol{\Theta} & \equiv \begin{bmatrix}{\theta_1} \\ {\theta_2}\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(194)

Then the relation between the conjugate momenta in vector form

\begin{aligned}\mathbf{p} & \equiv \begin{bmatrix}P_{\theta_1} \\ P_{\theta_2}\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(195)

and the angular velocity vector can be written

\begin{aligned}\mathbf{p} & = \mathcal{I}(\delta)\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(196)

Can we write the Lagrangian in terms of $\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}$? The first Kinetic term is easy, just

\begin{aligned}\frac{1}{{2}} m_1 l^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2 = \frac{1}{{2}} m_1\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T}\begin{bmatrix}l_1^2 & 0 \\ 0 & 0\end{bmatrix}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(197)

For the second mass, going back to 183, we can write

\begin{aligned}\dot{z}_2 = \hat{\mathbf{x}} i\begin{bmatrix}l_1 e^{i{\theta_1}} & l_2 e^{i{\theta_2}}\end{bmatrix}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(198)

Writing $\mathbf{r}$ for this $1x2$ matrix, we can utilize the associative property for compatible sized matrices to rewrite the speed for the second particle in terms of a quadratic form

\begin{aligned}{\left\lvert{\dot{z}_2}\right\rvert}^2=(\mathbf{r} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}) (\bar{\mathbf{r}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}})=\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} (\mathbf{r}^\text{T} \bar{\mathbf{r}}) \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(199)

The Lagrangian kinetic can all now be grouped into a single quadratic form

\begin{aligned}Q \equiv m_1\begin{bmatrix}l_1 \\ 0\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}l_1 & 0\end{bmatrix}+m_2\begin{bmatrix}l_1 e^{i{\theta_1}} \\ l_2 e^{i{\theta_2}}\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}l_1 e^{-i{\theta_1}} & l_2 e^{-i{\theta_2}}\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(200)

\begin{aligned}\mathcal{L} =\frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} Q \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}+M l_1 g \cos{\theta_1}+m_2 l_2 g \cos{\theta_2}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(201)

It is also clear that this generalize easily to multiple connected pendulums, as follows

\begin{aligned}K & = \frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} \sum_k m_k Q_k \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \\ Q_k & ={\begin{bmatrix}l_r l_s e^{i(\theta_r - \theta_s)}\end{bmatrix}}_{r,s \le k} \\ \phi & = - g \sum_k l_k \cos\theta_k \sum_{j=k}^N m_j \\ \mathcal{L} & = K - \phi\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(202)

In the expression for $Q_k$ above, it is implied that the matrix is zero for any indexes $r,s > k$, so it would perhaps be better to write explicitly

\begin{aligned}Q = \sum_k m_k Q_k={\begin{bmatrix}\sum_{j=\max(r,s)}^N m_j l_r l_s e^{i(\theta_r - \theta_s)}\end{bmatrix}}_{r,s}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(206)

Returning to the problem, it is convenient and sufficient in many cases to only discuss the representative double pendulum case. For that we can calculate the conjugate momenta from 201 directly

\begin{aligned}P_{\theta_1} & =\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {{\dot{\theta}_1}}}\frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} Q \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \\ & =\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {{\dot{\theta}_1}}}\frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} Q\begin{bmatrix}1 \\ 0\end{bmatrix}+\frac{1}{{2}}\begin{bmatrix}1 & 0\end{bmatrix}Q \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \\ & =\begin{bmatrix}1 & 0\end{bmatrix}\left(\frac{1}{{2}}(Q + Q^\text{T})\right) \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \\ \end{aligned}

Similarly the ${\theta_2}$ conjugate momentum is

\begin{aligned}P_{\theta_2}=\begin{bmatrix}0 & 1\end{bmatrix}\left(\frac{1}{{2}}(Q + Q^\text{T})\right) \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \\ \end{aligned}

Putting both together, it is straightforward to verify that this recovers 193, which can now be written

\begin{aligned}\mathbf{p} & =\frac{1}{{2}}(Q + Q^\text{T}) \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} = \mathcal{I} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(207)

Observing that $\mathcal{I} = \mathcal{I}^\text{T}$, and thus $(\mathcal{I}^\text{T})^{-1} = \mathcal{I}^{-1}$, we now have everything required to express the Hamiltonian in terms of the conjugate momenta

\begin{aligned}H = \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} Q \mathcal{I}^{-1} \right) \mathbf{p} - M g l_1 \cos{\theta_1} - m_2 l_2 g \cos{\theta_2}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(208)

This is now in a convenient form to calculate the first set of Hamiltonian equations.

\begin{aligned}\dot{\theta}_k & =\frac{\partial {H}}{\partial {P_{\theta_k}}} \\ & =\frac{\partial {\mathbf{p}^\text{T}}}{\partial {P_{\theta_k}}} \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} Q \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p}+ \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} Q \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {\mathbf{p}^\text{T}}}{\partial {P_{\theta_k}}} \\ & ={\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{kj}\end{bmatrix}}_j\frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} Q \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p}+ \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} Q \mathcal{I}^{-1}{\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{ik}\end{bmatrix}}_i \\ & ={\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{kj}\end{bmatrix}}_j\mathcal{I}^{-1} \underbrace{\frac{1}{{2}}(Q + Q^\text{T})}_{\mathcal{I}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \\ & ={\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{kj}\end{bmatrix}}_j\mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \\ \end{aligned}

So, when the velocity dependence is a quadratic form as identified in 200, the first half of the Hamiltonian equations in vector form are just

\begin{aligned}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} & ={\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {P_{\theta_1}}} \cdots \frac{\partial {}}{\partial {P_{\theta_N}}}\end{bmatrix}}^\text{T} H=\mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(209)

This is exactly the relation we used in the first place to re-express the Lagrangian in terms of the conjugate momenta in preparation for this calculation. The remaining Hamiltonian equations are trickier, and what we now want to calculate. Without specific reference to the pendulum problem, lets do this calculation for the general Hamiltonian for a non-velocity dependent potential. That is

\begin{aligned}H = \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} Q \mathcal{I}^{-1} \right) \mathbf{p} + \phi(\boldsymbol{\Theta})\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(210)

The remaining Hamiltonian equations are ${\partial {H}}/{\partial {\theta_a}} = -\dot{P}_{\theta_a}$, and the tricky part of evaluating this is going to all reside in the Kinetic term. Diving right in this is

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {K}}{\partial {\theta_a}} & = \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \left( \frac{1}{{2}} \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_a}} Q \mathcal{I}^{-1} \right) \mathbf{p} +\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \right) \mathbf{p} +\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} Q \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \right) \mathbf{p} \\ & = \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \underbrace{\frac{1}{{2}}(Q + Q^\text{T})}_{=\mathcal{I}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} +\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \right) \mathbf{p} \\ & = \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \mathbf{p} +\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \right) \mathbf{p} \\ \end{aligned}

For the two particle case we can expand this inverse easily enough, and then take derivatives to evaluate this, but this is messier and intractable for the general case. We can however, calculate the derivative of the identity matrix using the standard trick from rigid body mechanics

\begin{aligned}0 & = \frac{\partial {I}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \\ & = \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I} \mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \\ & = \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \mathcal{I}^{-1}+\mathcal{I} \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \\ \end{aligned}

Thus the derivative of the inverse (moment of inertia?) matrix is

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_a}} & = -\mathcal{I}^{-1}\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \\ & = -\mathcal{I}^{-1}\frac{1}{{2}}\left( \frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_a}} + \frac{\partial {Q^\text{T}}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \right) \mathcal{I}^{-1}\end{aligned}

This gives us for the Hamiltonian equation

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {H}}{\partial {\theta_a}} & = -\frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_a}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} + \frac{\partial {\phi}}{\partial {\theta_a}} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(211)

If we introduce a phase space position gradients

\begin{aligned}\nabla & \equiv {\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_1}} \cdots \frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_N}}\end{bmatrix}}^\text{T} \\ \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(212)

Then for the second half of the Hamiltonian equations we have the vector form

\begin{aligned}-\nabla H = \dot{\mathbf{p}} = {\begin{bmatrix}\frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \end{bmatrix}}_r- \nabla \phi\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(214)

The complete set of Hamiltonian equations for 210, in block matrix form, describing all the phase space change of the system is therefore

\begin{aligned}\frac{d}{dt} \begin{bmatrix}\mathbf{p} \\ \boldsymbol{\Theta}\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \end{bmatrix}}_r- \nabla \phi \\ \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \\ \end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_r- \nabla \phi \\ \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(215)

This is a very general relation, much more so than required for the original two particle problem. We have the same non-linearity that prevents this from being easily solved. If we want a linear expansion around a phase space point to find an approximate first order solution, we can get that applying the chain rule, calculating all the ${\partial {}}/{\partial {\theta_k}}$, and ${\partial {}}/{\partial {P_{\theta_k}}}$ derivatives of the top $N$ rows of this matrix.

If we write

\begin{aligned}\mathbf{z} \equiv \begin{bmatrix}\mathbf{p} \\ \boldsymbol{\Theta}\end{bmatrix}-{{\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf{p} \\ \boldsymbol{\Theta}\end{bmatrix}}}_{{t=0}}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(216)

and the Hamiltonian equations 215 as

\begin{aligned}\frac{d}{dt}\begin{bmatrix}\mathbf{p} \\ \boldsymbol{\Theta}\end{bmatrix}= A(\mathbf{p}, \boldsymbol{\Theta})\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(217)

Then the linearization, without simplifying or making explicit yet is

\begin{aligned}\dot{\mathbf{z}} \approx{{\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_r- \nabla \phi \\ \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}}_{{t=0}}+{\left.{{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {A}}{\partial {P_{\theta_1}}} \cdots \frac{\partial {A}}{\partial {P_{\theta_N}}} \cdots \frac{\partial {A}}{\partial {\theta_1}} \cdots \frac{\partial {A}}{\partial {\theta_N}} \end{bmatrix}}}\right\vert}_{{t=0}} \mathbf{z}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(218)

For brevity the constant term evaluated at $t=0$ is expressed in terms of the original angular velocity vector from our Lagrangian. The task is now evaluating the derivatives in the first order term of this Taylor series. Let’s do these one at a time and then reassemble all the results afterward.

So that we can discuss just the first order terms lets write $\Delta$ for the matrix of first order derivatives in our Taylor expansion, as in

\begin{aligned}f(\mathbf{p}, \boldsymbol{\Theta}) = {\left.{{f(\mathbf{p}, \boldsymbol{\Theta})}}\right\vert}_{{0}} + {\left.{{\Delta f}}\right\vert}_{{0}} \mathbf{z} + \cdots \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(219)

First, lets do the potential gradient.

\begin{aligned} \Delta (\nabla \phi) = \begin{bmatrix} 0 & {\begin{bmatrix} \frac{\partial^2 \phi}{ \partial \theta_r \partial \theta_c } \end{bmatrix}}_{r,c} \end{bmatrix} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(220)

Next in terms of complexity is the first order term of $\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}$, for which we have

\begin{aligned}\Delta (\mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p}) = \begin{bmatrix} {\begin{bmatrix} {\begin{bmatrix}\mathcal{I}^{-1} \delta_{rc}\end{bmatrix}}_{r}\end{bmatrix}}_{c} & {\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial (\mathcal{I}^{-1})}{\partial \theta_c} \mathbf{p} \\ \end{bmatrix}}_{c}\end{bmatrix} \\ \end{aligned}

The $\delta$ over all rows $r$ and columns $c$ is the identity matrix and we are left with

\begin{aligned}\Delta (\mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p}) & =\begin{bmatrix}\mathcal{I}^{-1} & {\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathbf{p} \\ \end{bmatrix}}_{c}\end{bmatrix} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(221)

Next, consider just the $P_\theta$ dependence in the elements of the row vector

\begin{aligned}{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \end{bmatrix}}_r\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(222)

We can take derivatives of this, and exploiting the fact that these elements are scalars, so they equal their transpose. Also noting that ${A^{-1}}^\text{T} = {A^\text{T}}^{-1}$, and $\mathcal{I} = \mathcal{I}^\text{T}$, we have

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {P_{\theta_c}}}\left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \right) & =\frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} {\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{rc}\end{bmatrix}}_r+\frac{1}{{2}} \left({\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{rc}\end{bmatrix}}_r \right)^\text{T}\mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \\ & =\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left( \frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\frac{1}{{2}} \left( Q + Q^T \right) \right)\mathcal{I}^{-1} {\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{rc}\end{bmatrix}}_r \\ & =\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\mathcal{I}^{-1} {\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{rc}\end{bmatrix}}_r \\ \end{aligned}

Since we also have $B' B^{-1} + B (B^{-1})' = 0$, for invertable matrixes $B$, this reduces to

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {P_{\theta_c}}}\left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \right) & =-\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_r}}{\begin{bmatrix}\delta_{rc}\end{bmatrix}}_r \\ \end{aligned}

Forming the matrix over all rows $r$, and columns $c$, we get a trailing identity multiplying from the right, and are left with

\begin{aligned}{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {P_{\theta_c}}}\left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \right)\end{bmatrix}}_{r,c} & ={\begin{bmatrix}-\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\end{bmatrix}}_{r} ={\begin{bmatrix}-\frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathbf{p}\end{bmatrix}}_{c} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(223)

Okay, getting closer. The only thing left is to consider the remaining $\theta$ dependence of 222, and now want the theta partials of the scalar matrix elements

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_c}} & \left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \right) \\ & =\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \left( \frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_c}}\left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \right)\right)\mathbf{p} \\ & =\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial^2 Q^\text{T}}{\partial \theta_c \partial \theta_r} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} +\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{1}{{2}} \left( \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} +\mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1} )}}{\partial {\theta_c}}\right)\mathbf{p} \\ & =\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{1}{{2}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial^2 Q^\text{T}}{\partial \theta_c \partial \theta_r} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} +\mathbf{p}^\text{T} \frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \\ \end{aligned}

There is a slight asymmetry between the first and last terms here that can possibly be eliminated. Using ${B^{-1}}' = -B^{-1} B' B^{-1}$, we can factor out the $\mathcal{I}^{-1}\mathbf{p} = \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}$ terms

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_c}}\left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \right) & =\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} \left(\frac{1}{{2}} \frac{\partial^2 Q^\text{T}}{\partial \theta_c \partial \theta_r} -\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathcal{I}^{-1}\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}} \right)\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{aligned}

Is this any better? Maybe a bit. Since we are forming the matrix over all $r,c$ indexes and can assume mixed partial commutation the transpose can be dropped leaving us with

\begin{aligned}{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_c}}\left( \frac{1}{{2}} \mathbf{p}^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \mathbf{p} \right) \end{bmatrix}}_{r,c} & ={\begin{bmatrix}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} \left(\frac{1}{{2}} \frac{\partial^2 Q}{\partial \theta_c \partial \theta_r} -\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathcal{I}^{-1}\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}} \right)\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_{r,c} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(224)

We can now assemble all these individual derivatives

\begin{aligned}\dot{\mathbf{z}} & \approx {{\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_r- \nabla \phi \\ \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}}_{{t=0}} +{{\begin{bmatrix}-{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathbf{p}\end{bmatrix}}_{c} & {\begin{bmatrix}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} \left(\frac{1}{{2}} \frac{\partial^2 Q}{\partial \theta_c \partial \theta_r} -\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathcal{I}^{-1}\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}} \right)\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}-\frac{\partial^2 \phi}{ \partial \theta_r \partial \theta_c }\end{bmatrix}}_{r,c} \\ \\ \mathcal{I}^{-1} & {\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathbf{p} \\ \end{bmatrix}}_{c}\end{bmatrix} }}_{{t=0}} \mathbf{z}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(225)

We have both ${\partial {(\mathcal{I}^{-1})}}/{\partial {\theta_k}}$ and ${\partial {\mathcal{I}}}/{\partial {\theta_k}}$ derivatives above, which will complicate things when trying to evaluate this for any specific system. A final elimination of the derivatives of the inverse inertial matrix leaves us with

\begin{aligned}\dot{\mathbf{z}} & \approx {{\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{bmatrix}\frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\right)^\text{T} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_r- \nabla \phi \\ \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}}_{{t=0}} +{{\begin{bmatrix}{\begin{bmatrix}\mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_{c} & {\begin{bmatrix}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} \left(\frac{1}{{2}} \frac{\partial^2 Q}{\partial \theta_c \partial \theta_r} -\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathcal{I}^{-1}\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}} \right)\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}-\frac{\partial^2 \phi}{ \partial \theta_r \partial \theta_c }\end{bmatrix}}_{r,c} \\ \\ \mathcal{I}^{-1} & -{\begin{bmatrix}\mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_{c}\end{bmatrix} }}_{{t=0}} \mathbf{z}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(226)

## Single pendulum verification.

Having accumultated this unholy mess of abstraction, lets verify this first against the previous result obtained for the single planar pendulum. Then if that checks out, calculate these matrixes explicitly for the double and multiple pendulum cases. For the single mass pendulum we have

\begin{aligned}Q & = \mathcal{I} = m l^2 \\ \phi & = - m g l \cos\theta\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(227)

So all the $\theta$ partials except that of the potential are zero. For the potential we have

\begin{aligned}{\left.{{- \frac{\partial^2 \phi}{\partial^2 \theta}}}\right\vert}_{{0}} = - m g l \cos\theta_0\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(229)

\begin{aligned}{\left.{{-\nabla \phi}}\right\vert}_{{0}} = \begin{bmatrix} - m g l \sin\theta_0\end{bmatrix} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(230)

Putting these all together in this simplest application of 226 we have for the linear approximation of a single point mass pendulum about some point in phase space at time zero:

\begin{aligned}\dot{\mathbf{z}} \approx \begin{bmatrix} - m g l \sin\theta_0 \\ \dot{\theta}_0\end{bmatrix} +\begin{bmatrix} 0 & - m g l \cos\theta_0 \\ \frac{1}{{m l^2}} & 0\end{bmatrix} \mathbf{z}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(231)

Excellent. Have not gotten into too much trouble with the math so far. This is consistent with the previous results obtained considering the simple pendulum directly (it actually pointed out an error in the earlier pendulum treatment which is now fixed (I’d dropped the $\dot{\theta}_0$ term)).

## Double pendulum explicitly.

For the double pendulum, with $\delta = \theta_1 - \theta_2$, and $M = m_1 + m_2$, we have

\begin{aligned}Q = \begin{bmatrix}M {l_1}^2 & m_2 l_2 l_1 e^{i(\theta_2 - \theta_1)} \\ m_2 l_1 l_2 e^{i(\theta_1 - \theta_2)} & m_2 {l_2}^2 \\ \end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}M {l_1}^2 & m_2 l_2 l_1 e^{-i\delta} \\ m_2 l_1 l_2 e^{i\delta} & m_2 {l_2}^2 \\ \end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(232)

\begin{aligned}\frac{1}{{2}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} \left(\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_1}} \right)^\text{T} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} & = \frac{1}{{2}} m_2 l_1 l_2 i\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} {\begin{bmatrix}0 & - e^{-i\delta} \\ e^{i\delta} & 0\end{bmatrix}}^\text{T}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} \\ & = \frac{1}{{2}} m_2 l_1 l_2 i\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} \begin{bmatrix}e^{i\delta} \dot{\theta}_2 \\ -e^{-i\delta} \dot{\theta}_1 \end{bmatrix} \\ & = \frac{1}{{2}} m_2 l_1 l_2 i \dot{\theta}_1 \dot{\theta}_2 (e^{i\delta} -e^{-i\delta}) \\ & = -m_2 l_1 l_2 \dot{\theta}_1 \dot{\theta}_2 \sin\delta\end{aligned}

The $\theta_2$ derivative is the same but inverted in sign, so we have most of the constant term calculated. We need the potential gradient to complete. Our potential was

\begin{aligned}\phi = - M l_1 g \cos{\theta_1} - m_2 l_2 g \cos{\theta_2}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(233)

\begin{aligned}\nabla \phi =\begin{bmatrix}M l_1 g \sin{\theta_1} \\ m_2 l_2 g \sin{\theta_2}\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(234)

Putting things back together we have for the linear approximation of the two pendulum system

\begin{aligned}\dot{\mathbf{z}} = {{\begin{bmatrix}m_2 l_1 l_2 \dot{\theta}_1 \dot{\theta}_2 \sin(\theta_1 - \theta_2) \begin{bmatrix}-1 \\ 1\end{bmatrix} & - g\begin{bmatrix}M l_1 \sin{\theta_1} \\ m_2 l_2 \sin{\theta_2} \\ \end{bmatrix} \\ \dot{\theta}_1 \\ \dot{\theta}_2 \\ \end{bmatrix}}}_{{t=0}}+ A \mathbf{z}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(235)

Where $A$ is still to be determined (from 226).

One of the elements of $A$ are the matrix of potential derivatives. These are

\begin{aligned}\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial {\nabla \phi}}{\partial {\theta_1}} & \frac{\partial {\nabla \phi}}{\partial {\theta_2}}\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}M l_1 g \cos\theta_1 & 0 \\ 0 & m_2 l_2 g \cos\theta_2\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(236)

We also need the inertial matrix and its inverse. These are

\begin{aligned}\mathcal{I}=\begin{bmatrix}M {l_1}^2 & m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta \\ m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta & m_2 {l_2}^2 \\ \end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(237)

\begin{aligned}\mathcal{I}^{-1}=\frac{1}{{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}}\begin{bmatrix}m_2 {l_2}^2 & -m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta \\ -m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta & M {l_1}^2 \\ \end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(238)

Since

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_1}} & = m_2 l_1 l_2 i\begin{bmatrix}0 & - e^{-i\delta} \\ e^{i\delta} & 0\end{bmatrix} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(239)

We have

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_1}} \frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_1}} & =-m_2 l_1 l_2 \begin{bmatrix}0 & e^{-i\delta} \\ e^{i\delta} & 0\end{bmatrix} \\ \frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_2}} \frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_1}} & =m_2 l_1 l_2 \begin{bmatrix}0 & e^{-i\delta} \\ e^{i\delta} & 0\end{bmatrix} \\ \frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_1}} \frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_2}} & =m_2 l_1 l_2 \begin{bmatrix}0 & e^{-i\delta} \\ e^{i\delta} & 0\end{bmatrix} \\ \frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_2}} \frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_2}} & =-m_2 l_1 l_2 \begin{bmatrix}0 & e^{-i\delta} \\ e^{i\delta} & 0\end{bmatrix} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(240)

and the matrix of derivatives becomes

\begin{aligned}\frac{1}{{2}}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T} \frac{\partial {}}{\partial {\theta_c}}\frac{\partial {Q}}{\partial {\theta_r}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}=m_2 l_1 l_2 \dot{\theta_1} \dot{\theta_2} \cos(\theta_1 - \theta_2)\begin{bmatrix}-1 & 1 \\ 1 & -1\end{bmatrix} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(244)

For the remaining two types of terms in the matrix $A$ we need $\mathcal{I}^{-1} {\partial {\mathcal{I}}}/{\partial {\theta_k}}$. The derivative of the inertial matrix is

\begin{aligned}\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_k}}=-m_2 l_1 l_2 (\delta_{k1} - \delta_{k2})\begin{bmatrix}0 & \sin\delta \\ \sin\delta & 0\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(245)

Computing the product

\begin{aligned}\mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_k}} & =\frac{ -m_2 l_1 l_2 (\delta_{k1} - \delta_{k2}) }{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\begin{bmatrix}m_2 {l_2}^2 & -m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta \\ -m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta & M {l_1}^2 \\ \end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}0 & \sin\delta \\ \sin\delta & 0\end{bmatrix} \\ & =\frac{ -m_2 l_1 l_2 (\delta_{k1} - \delta_{k2}) \sin\delta}{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\begin{bmatrix}-m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta & m_2 {l_2}^2 \\ M {l_1}^2 & -m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \\ \end{bmatrix}\end{aligned}

We want the matrix of $\mathcal{I}^{-1} {\partial {\mathcal{I}}}/{\partial {\theta_c}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}$ over columns $c$, and this is

\begin{aligned}{\begin{bmatrix}\mathcal{I}^{-1} {\partial {\mathcal{I}}}/{\partial {\theta_c}} \dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_{c}=\frac{ m_2 l_1 l_2 \sin\delta}{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\begin{bmatrix}m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta \dot{\theta}_1 - m_2 {l_2}^2 \dot{\theta}_2 & -m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta \dot{\theta}_1 + m_2 {l_2}^2 \dot{\theta}_2 \\ -M {l_1}^2 \dot{\theta}_1 +m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \dot{\theta}_2 & M {l_1}^2 \dot{\theta}_1 -m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \dot{\theta}_2\end{bmatrix}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(246)

Very messy. Perhaps it would be better not even bothering to expand this explicitly? The last term in the matrix $A$ is probably no better. For that we want

\begin{aligned}-\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}} & =\frac{ -{m_2}^2 {l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 (\delta_{c1} - \delta_{c2}) (\delta_{r1} - \delta_{r2}) \sin^2\delta}{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\begin{bmatrix}0 & 1 \\ 1 & 0\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}-m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta & m_2 {l_2}^2 \\ M {l_1}^2 & -m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \\ \end{bmatrix} \\ & =\frac{ -{m_2}^2 {l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 (\delta_{c1} - \delta_{c2}) (\delta_{r1} - \delta_{r2}) \sin^2\delta}{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\begin{bmatrix}M {l_1}^2 & -m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \\ -m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta & m_2 {l_2}^2 \\ \end{bmatrix} \\ \end{aligned}

With a sandwich of this between $\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T}$ and $\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}$ we are almost there

\begin{aligned}-\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T}\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}} & =\frac{ -{m_2}^2 {l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 (\delta_{c1} - \delta_{c2}) (\delta_{r1} - \delta_{r2}) \sin^2\delta}{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\left( M {l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2 -2m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \dot{\theta_1} \dot{\theta}_2 ++ m_2 {l_2}^2 {\dot{\theta}_2}^2 \right)\end{aligned}

we have a matrix of these scalars over $r,c$, and that is

\begin{aligned}{\begin{bmatrix}-\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}^\text{T}\frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_c}} \mathcal{I}^{-1} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{I}}}{\partial {\theta_r}}\dot{\boldsymbol{\Theta}}\end{bmatrix}}_{rc} & =\frac{ {m_2}^2 {l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 \sin^2\delta}{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\left(M {l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2 - 2 m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \dot{\theta_1} \dot{\theta}_2 + m_2 {l_2}^2 {\dot{\theta}_2}^2 \right)\begin{bmatrix}-1 & 1 \\ 1 & -1\end{bmatrix} \end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(247)

Putting all the results for the matrix $A$ together is going to make a disgusting mess, so lets summarize in block matrix form

\begin{aligned}A & = {{\begin{bmatrix}B & C \\ \mathcal{I}^{-1} & -B\end{bmatrix}}}_{{t=0}} \\ B & =\frac{ m_2 l_1 l_2 \sin\delta}{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\begin{bmatrix}m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta \dot{\theta}_1 - m_2 {l_2}^2 \dot{\theta}_2 & -m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta \dot{\theta}_1 + m_2 {l_2}^2 \dot{\theta}_2 \\ -M {l_1}^2 \dot{\theta}_1 +m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \dot{\theta}_2 & M {l_1}^2 \dot{\theta}_1 -m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \dot{\theta}_2\end{bmatrix} \\ C & =\left(m_2 l_1 l_2 \dot{\theta_1} \dot{\theta_2} \cos \delta+\frac{ {m_2}^2 {l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 \sin^2\delta}{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}\left(M {l_1}^2 {\dot{\theta}_1}^2 - 2 m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta \dot{\theta_1} \dot{\theta}_2 + m_2 {l_2}^2 {\dot{\theta}_2}^2 \right)\right)\begin{bmatrix}-1 & 1 \\ 1 & -1\end{bmatrix} \\ & \qquad+\begin{bmatrix}M l_1 g \cos\theta_1 & 0 \\ 0 & m_2 l_2 g \cos\theta_2\end{bmatrix} \\ \mathcal{I}^{-1} & =\frac{1}{{{l_1}^2 {l_2}^2 m_2 (M - m_2 \cos^2\delta)}}\begin{bmatrix}m_2 {l_2}^2 & -m_2 l_2 l_1 \cos\delta \\ -m_2 l_1 l_2 \cos\delta & M {l_1}^2 \\ \end{bmatrix} \\ b & =\begin{bmatrix}m_2 l_1 l_2 \dot{\theta}_1 \dot{\theta}_2 \sin(\theta_1 - \theta_2) \begin{bmatrix}-1 \\ 1\end{bmatrix} & - g\begin{bmatrix}M l_1 \sin{\theta_1} \\ m_2 l_2 \sin{\theta_2} \\ \end{bmatrix} \\ \dot{\theta}_1 \\ \dot{\theta}_2 \\ \end{bmatrix}\end{aligned}

where these are all related by the first order matrix equation

\begin{aligned}\frac{d\mathbf{z}}{dt} & = {\left.{\mathbf{b}}\right\vert}_{{t=0}} + {\left.{{A}}\right\vert}_{{t=0}} \mathbf{z}\end{aligned} \quad\quad\quad(248)

Wow, even to just write down the equations required to get a linear approximation of the two pendulum system is horrendously messy, and this isn’t even trying to solve it. Numerical and or symbolic computation is really called for here. If one elected to do this numerically, which looks pretty much mandatory since the analytic way didn’t turn out to be simple even for just the two pendulum system, then one is probably better off going all the way back to 215 and just calculating the increment for the tragectory using a very small time increment, and do this repeatedly (i.e. do a zeroth order numerical procedure instead of the first order which turns out much more complicated).

1. ### juanmarqzsaid

friend: use $l… \left(\begin{array}{ccc}1&2&3\\4&5&6\end{array}\right)$ to get the matrix
$\left(\begin{array}{ccc}1&2&3\\4&5&6\end{array}\right)$

This instead on bmatrix which is defective…

• ### peeterjootsaid

I don’t think it is actually the bmatrix that was the problem. I have too many latex macros in the source that generated this, and my script to convert them has screwed up.

That said, what about bmatrix is defective in general?

• ### juanmarqzsaid

it fails inside the compiler that changes double backslashes into one…

• ### peeterjootsaid

I presume that you mean a wordpress compiler of some sort? I haven’t observed any trouble with bmatrix in standalone latex.