I learnt more in the last 9 minutes than 3 hours of studying my lecture slides. The fact that you explain each step and the reason for it creates a fantastically intuitive method. Thank you!

@wangeci8255

5 жыл бұрын

I agree 👍

@stevenm3914

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutly 100% true

@Theraiseofnewempire

3 жыл бұрын

that why I only take topic names from slides and then delete it. then I search those topic on reference books and youtube channels like this

Thank goodness you made these lectures. I don't know why every physics course just skims over Lagrangians like they are so obvious. I mean, I'm not saying they are hard, but you need them to progress through to so many other topics in physics that it is insane how little literature there is on the topic.

@Galal0110

6 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

Hours of trying to figure out the simple basic reason why the KE for a pendulum is 1/2L^2theta^2 and no textbook or reference gives me the derivation for it. You sir just explained to me in two minutes. Honestly the best professor.

@k.bashaa4716

5 жыл бұрын

U r right

Very straightforward. Perfect for brushing up on my mechanics knowledge. Thanks!

Totally enjoying these lessons. This is beautiful!

I studied this last year in mechanics. Today, before starting quantum , I thought I would revise Lagrangian and Euler Lagrangian.... Everything about Lagrangian came back to me in 9 minutes. Nice and precise video.. thanks

Like the desert blooming after a spring shower. This is really good stuff.

You are a gifted teacher! I never tire writing the same over and over.

A big respect to you sir, Thanks for those illustrated lessons and helpful videos.

this Sir is helping me prepare for my entrance exam free of cost :) I don't have words to pa him respect

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You are my favorite Physics teacher since high-school. Big thanks!!!!

@MichelvanBiezen

Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that! Glad you found our videos! 🙂

Thank you Sir! I learned more in 9 minutes of watching your video than a whole day of studying my professor's powerpoint slides. I'm now able to confidently answer my test in Classical Mechanics.

Brilliant Professor indeed❗️❗️🎗

you r the best teacher keep up the good work i love you my brother

These videos got me through the bulk of my college degree

Such a nice teacher!!

I do appreciate your lecture, whereby the many times i had tried to read and failed to understand. Now its clear about Lagrangian and Hamiltonian equations of motion of a pendulum. Thanks

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found our videos. 🙂

This helped me so much, thank you!

i learnt very simply by you sir,.......thank you.. four this

Im a mechanical engineer student, as such i have taken dynamics which from i understand is analogous to Classical Mechanics physics majors take with probable less complexity than the physics major. That being said, i now understand so much more because in my class all these formulas were handed out as tools and i literally didnt understand how each "tool" worked or what it did. This helps sooooooo much understanding the mechanics.

@MichelvanBiezen

3 жыл бұрын

I tend to agree with you that in many engineering courses, they teach your the "tricks of the trade", without fully explaining where they came from, why the work, and how to develop them. When I took those classes, I had the same problem, because I learned better if I was shown the context of what we were doing.

Awesome. I became curious with the derivation of the equation of motion for a simple pendulum using Lagrangian Mechanics. This didn't disappoint.

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@two697

2 жыл бұрын

Same but with the double pendulum

SOOOOOOOO great the video!!!!Thank you sir~!

Method of teaching is superbbb😉

Sir you are great your videos are very helpful .thanks for these videos sir☺️☺️

Wonderful, you are more deserving of my tuition fee to you rather than some of my professors. If I ever get rich, you will get a fat cheque in the mail as well earned payment for all I've learnt from you!

thank you...amazing and simple

great video nice explanation, i love it

Thnak u sir u r method is very easy to understand

3:47 if you multiply mg (l-l*cos(theta)), u get mgl-mgl*cos(theta), and mgl is constant, and constant doesnt matter in potential energy so u can forget this term, and u are left with -mgl*cos(theta) . It simplifies things, but doesnt matter i guess, bcz u're gonna do derivative later, so it will drop out anyways

Perfect explanation

Thank goodness that I came across, Langrange has been my nightmare. Now I understand thank you Sir

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

wow this was quit complicated but I understood it now I can solve the double pendulum problem

Great video but I am disapointed that the part of solving diffrencial equation was totally skiped

Thank u it really helps me plz upload more videos

OMG! Thank you sm for this explanantion. It really helps me understand

excellent, can you explain the inverted pendulum which is connected to a load gear.

Fantastic video

I love this video

this guy is amazing!!!!

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Just a simple man enjoying learning how everything works, and then taking pleasure in sharing what I have learned.

Really a useful short lecturer.

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Another neat trick is to assign the roof where the pendulum is attached be the ground, or place where the potential is zero. The potential energy of the system is -mglcos θ, and the kinetic energy stays the same.

@MichelvanBiezen

Жыл бұрын

Interesting approach! 🙂

Nice and easy to get it.

Thank you sir

I always find it impressive when people can just look at a differential equation and just know the general solution. That's where I trip up. I get a good bit through some math and then run into a differential equation and I am just not sure what the general solution looks like on top of my head. Thanks for the video!

@MichelvanBiezen

6 жыл бұрын

That was the case for me as well as a student. "But how does he/she know the general solution". It turns out like almost everything else, after a while you learn to memorize the general solution to a number of equations.

@EagleLogic

6 жыл бұрын

Ahh okay that's good to know. I just tried to do this problem on my own several hours after watching it. I managed to get to the end but still confused on the solution to the differential equation. You said Sine or Cosine, and you went ahead with Sine? So I could have used A*Cos(wt) as my solution? Thank you so much for your continued help over the past few years of my physics education. These higher level classes are humbling to the say the least.

what will happen to potential energy if bob is suspended by a rubber band?plz tell

Can you please explain how the function will be the same when if we differentiate it with theta as you have said at 4:00

@MichelvanBiezen

7 жыл бұрын

If the PE and KE are expressed in term of the angle, we can use the Lagrangian using the angle as the variable.

Just one word Wow.........

Your videos are great I love them

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Watch the following video for the graph plotting of the same problem using python language:- kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHl3mLpmf8-znbA.html

Thank u so much sir thanks alot

Please can you tell me how you solved the last equation to get theta = Axsin(wt)? I tried and I tried but couldn't have understanding it.

@MichelvanBiezen

7 жыл бұрын

That is a standard differential equation of an oscillator and thus the solution is the standard solution. The best way to check is to use the result to get back the differential equation. Take a look at this video: Differential Equation - 2nd Order Linear (9 of 17) Homogeneous with Constant Coeff: Free Oscillator kzread.info/dash/bejne/iG2WzpJrdsnVj9I.html

@zlatanbrekke6538

3 жыл бұрын

Learn Laplace Transform, they are really easy and useful for ODE like this. The solution in the video is not the general solution, the general solution should be written as theta(t) = theta(0)*cos(wt) + (thetadot(0)/w)*sin(wt) (remember w here is not angular velocity, but sqrt(g/l) )

this is so helpful

The best professor ❤❤ ,🇩🇿🇩🇿

@MichelvanBiezen

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Glad you find our videos helpful. 🙂

How theta double dot + omega square theta = 0 became theta in function t sir?

thank you

Cool lesson keep up

You SIR are a legend! I just had one question, @ 7:15 I understand that sin(theta) is theta but I don't understand why we needed it to formulate the equation. Wouldn't we be happy with a final equation containg sin(theta)? Thanks a lot.

@MichelvanBiezen

6 жыл бұрын

Using Lagrangian mechanics, or with differential equations it is easier to work the problem when we use theta as a variable instead of sin(theta).

Easy to understand. Thank you.

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

thanks you sir

Interesting! Lagrange gives the same results as using vector notations and Newton's laws...

Thank you sir.

a great relief to south asia...

Beautiful

Thank you 🌷

A very good lecture, Thank you Sir!

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@prakasamkannadi7616

2 жыл бұрын

@@MichelvanBiezen Really helpful. I understand how the equation to be derived. I have played the video, repeated , too and fro. Video will be for referance.

Thank you so much, sir !

@MichelvanBiezen

3 жыл бұрын

Most welcome!

Beautifully explained, sir . Thank you so much . Just a friendly suggestion , instead of Theta dot, writing theta dash avoids confusion .. in terms of reading

very very nice

1:00 why dont we include additional kinetic energy? +mv^2/2?

Effect of relativity on spring masss system lagrangian

Great video 👍🏻

@MichelvanBiezen

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

Thanks🙏🙇 sir

sir may u please tell me where we take positive potential energy and where negative potential energy in finding Lagrangian .i am quite confused

@MichelvanBiezen

7 жыл бұрын

Unless we define the down direction as positive, PE is positive in an upward direction.

I didnt quite understand how we went from thetha(doubledot)+omega^2*thetha to thetha(t)=A*sin(omega*t)? is it just a thing you remember or is there a way to derive it?

@MichelvanBiezen

5 жыл бұрын

Take the derivative and then the second derivative of A sin(wt) and you'll see that it is the solution of that differential equation. It turns out that is a very common differential equation and the common solution for simple harmonic motion.

the general solution to the differential equation should include an arbitrary phase constant, Asin(ωt - φ)

@aurelia8028

3 жыл бұрын

No? why? the arbitray constant _is_ A

Is it natural frequency omega_n = sqrt(g/l) and angular velocity omega = v/l ? They are both called omega in this so it is a little confusing.

@MichelvanBiezen

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, some symbols are used many times over in physics. But in this case, there is a close connection between angular velocity and oscillation frequency.

Plz sir solved forced harmonic oscillation lagrangian body

Thanks for the excellent explanation. I have a question that confuses me, what if the pendulum moves horizontally. not vertical as exemplified in the video. What are the potential and kinetic equations? I can't find it on youtube, I hope you help me

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

There needs to be a storage of potential energy for a pendulum to work. If it is not gravitational potential energy, what would be the potential energy? One possibility is that is an object attached to a spring and the compressed spring contains the potential energy. We have examples of such a system in this playlist.

Sorry to (probably) misplace this comment/request, but... I have been a model railway enthusiast since ever and have been bothered by the following problem. Assume you have a train consisting of one locomotive pulling some freight cars: the first cars being flat deck cars with no load on them, followed by some much heavier box (closed-chassis) cars or even another loc. Now when the train takes a turn, in model trains the flat cars would most probably cut the turn and derail, while in real life the train would probably pass the turn successfully. Obviously, this depends on the radius of the turn, as well as on the mass distribution of the vehicles. Could also be that the type of wheels ("bogies") play a role. I am aware that the mass of the model rolling stock is often not to scale, but would you be able to explain all the dependencies/vectors involved in this problem? What are the critical points here for the train to pass the turn successfully? Thank you.

@MichelvanBiezen

3 жыл бұрын

I used to be a model railroad enthusiast myself, and I always wondered about that same problem. It is mainly caused by the tightness of the turn. If you make the turn less sharp that will be less of a problem. It is for that reason that railroad tracks do not have sharp turns or the same thing would happen. Draw a vector of one car pulling the next and see what the magnitude of the component is perpendicular to the tracks. (the cars being relatively light also does not help).

Great .

Thanks for your video, Sir. But I'm so confused. On your previous video (the SMH), we got the equation is x double dot + w2x = 0 and the solution is x = A cos (wt). But in this one, we got the similiar equation, which is theta double dot + w2 theta = 0. Those to are exactly the same but the variable, the one is x and the one is theta. But why the solution is different? The x one is cos and the theta one is sin?

@MichelvanBiezen

Жыл бұрын

Both the sin and the cos are solutions. The one you pick depends on the intial conditions (when t = 0)

Sir from where should I read the theory of lagrangian mechanics For even better understanding?

@Peter_1986

5 жыл бұрын

Check out the book "Introduction To Classical Mechanics" by David Morin. That book has a chapter devoted to the Lagrangian method.

I would rather take the potential energy in the first place, as the y component of the mgl which is mglcos(theta), which simplifies the thing.

@MichelvanBiezen

Жыл бұрын

That will work. 🙂

When computing the partial of L with respect to theta. Shouldn't you also get a theta dot term?

@MichelvanBiezen

6 жыл бұрын

Since theta dot is essentially the angular velocity, the answer is no.

@istainblack

6 жыл бұрын

Oh. Yes, I see my error now (I was thinking about the partial with respect to time instead of theta). Thank you for the reply and the great video!

Question: How do we calculate the time till that SIMPLE PENDULUM practically STOPS in air at STP? 'standard Temperature and Pressure' = normal day at a comfortable temeperature'

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

We have videos on the damping equation for simple harmonic motion. The decay equation will be in the form: e^-ct which then shows how long it takes before the pendulum comes to a stop.

@rodericksibelius8472

2 жыл бұрын

@@MichelvanBiezen How do we calculate the time to full stop in an UNCRITICALLY DAMPED system?

Sir when sin theta = theta, Then can we use this pendulum as harmonic oscillator.

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

For angles smaller than 10 degrees, the two are almost equal (the angle must be in radians).

Sir I know that it may be not a question to this chapter (because I should now it) but how is it that at 5:30 while taking the partial derivative m and g haven't been differentiated but the cos has been ??? Thank You for Your great work :)

@MichelvanBiezen

6 жыл бұрын

m and g are constants. but theta is a variable, therefore cos(theta) must be differentiated.

@mark.p9824

6 жыл бұрын

That makes sense ;) thank You very much

the most hand-written ( { ) I've ever seen

@MichelvanBiezen

Жыл бұрын

Yes, lots of parentheses.

1:00 the floating dirt in the air passing by.

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

lol

Will force remain conserve or non-conserve?

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Since it is working against gravity (a conservative force) the energy in the system will be conserved unless there is friction, then the force will not be a conservative force.

Good job sir but you must discuss conditions and degree of freedom in details

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is a good point. We still need to cover a lot of examples with the Lagrangian.

Thanks sir❤🙏

@MichelvanBiezen

10 ай бұрын

You are welcome.

Thanks u so much Sir

@MichelvanBiezen

4 ай бұрын

You are welcome.

Equation of motion of a compound pendulum..V=-mglcos‌‌© why v=negative

I thought ½Iω² only applied to a body that's rotating. Not a body on a circular motion. Could you please clarify?

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Just like for linear motion KE = (1/2) mv^2 For circular motion KE = (1/2) Iw^2

@Signal_Processing_ML_DL_Com

2 жыл бұрын

@@MichelvanBiezen oh I thought it only applied to rotating body

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

It applies to any body that rotates about its axis or orbits a fixed point (or any other axis displaced from the center of mass)

Sir, Why we are using Rotational kinetic energy in simple pendulum.. Qn..

@MichelvanBiezen

4 жыл бұрын

You can use either rotational or linear. For small oscillations you should get the same answer

can't we take the potential energy as -mglcos(theta)??

@marquez2390

5 жыл бұрын

Height above ground = L - Lcos (theta)

@atreysolanki8349

5 жыл бұрын

@@marquez2390 yes that's correct but if we are taking the reference point as the fixed point about which the pendulum is oscillating then potential energy should come as -mglcos(theta),and i am asking that is it also a correct approach?

How can we support/donate to your chanel?

@MichelvanBiezen

5 жыл бұрын

You can support/donate at: www.ilectureonline.com/donate www.patreon.com/user?u=3236071 Thank You!

how to solve this differential equation ? theta ( double dot ) + (g / l )*sin theta = 0 for theta as a function of something.

@carultch

2 жыл бұрын

It has to do with assuming the solution comes in the form of exp(r*t). You will eventually solve a quadratic equation and find two imaginary solutions for the constant r, and when you construct the meaning of exponential functions with imaginary exponents through Euler's formula, you will get a linear combination of A*sin(omega*t) and B*cos(omega*t), where A and B are the amplitudes of each component of the solution, and omega is the angular frequency, that will equal sqrt(g/L) in this example. Through trigonometric identities, you can prove that this is equivalent to: theta = theta_0 * cos(omega*t + phi) This means that the solution comes in the form of a sinusoidal waveform with an amplitude (theta_0) and a phase shift term (phi) that depend on the initial conditions.

@michaelempeigne3519

2 жыл бұрын

@@carultch so why does he not do this in video?

@carultch

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelempeigne3519 Because it isn't the focus of this particular class. In Differential equations, you learn to solve that equation. In this particular class, I would assume that the students already took differential equations, or it is something that is considered a given, so that the students eventually learn to solve it when they do take differential equations. There might even be a proof for it in the textbook, that is simply not the main focus of the class. For instance, when moment of inertia of a disk comes up in an introductory physics class, it is typically a given that it is 1/2*m*R^2. There is a proof in the textbook, or at least the background to do the proof in the textbook, if the students are curious. But knowing how to do the proof isn't necessarily the subject of the class.

@MichelvanBiezen

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is assumed that the students is familiar with partial derivatives and differential equations. If not, we have videos on those topics as well.