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Example

A pendulum starts from rest, making an angle of 60 degrees with the vertical. After swinging one cycle and coming back to rest, it now makes an angle of only 45 degrees with the vertical. What is the work done by frictional forces?

Take the mass of the pendulum to be 1kg and its length to be 1m.



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Josh Deutsch 2003-02-02