A Particle in a Potential Well: Nonlinear Dynamics @Eigensteve
A Particle in a Potential Well: Nonlinear Dynamics  @Eigensteve
Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video shows how to derive the equations of motion for a fully nonlinear system, the particle in a potential well, from F=ma or from Lagrangian mechanics. We will linearize these equations and draw phase portraits to gain intuition about nonlinear systems.

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0:00 Problem setup and equations of motion
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A Particle in a Potential Well: Nonlinear Dynamics

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