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It seems both convenient and illustrative to introduce some of our later defined notions on simple but typical examples of mechanical systems. Perhaps the simplest and, at the same time, most typical mechanical system is a single link mathematical (idealized) pendulum discussed in the following example.
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Skowronski, J.M. (1991). Mechanical Systems. In: Control of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems. Applied Information Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3722-9_1
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