The Kicked Rotor – A Chaotic Playground

This simple mechanical system was one of my first coding projects when learning about physics simulations. It's basically a frictionless, gravity-free rigid pendulum that gets periodic kicks of fixed strength and direction. The phase space shows interesting patterns that are observed in multiple applications of chaos theory.

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PS I'm honestly blown away by how smooth is making webapps these days thanks to LLMs helping with all the web stack.