In article , Gary Coffman says...

The force, mg, is
always *down*, but pendulum motion is radial around
the pivot.

I was talking about circular motion.

But for a pendulum, the displacement
and the force are still orthogonal.

The dot product is still zero.

For long pendulums, that is. That
makes is a lot easier to solve for
the motion.

Jim

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