Pendulum diagram 3.13 has sine and cosine reversed
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shiffman commented
and the text should probably make note of this
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Added:
Note, however that
sin(angle)
is used for the x-value andcos(angle)
for the y. This is the opposite of the formula we established in Chapter 3. The reason for this is that we are looking for the top angle of the right-triangle pointing down as depicted in Figure 3.13.