After looking at various papers on the topic I found some equations of motion, did some algebra and wrote some python code. Here is the result video of simulat

After looking at various papers on the topic I found some equations of motion, did some algebra and wrote some python code. Here is the result video of simulation results animated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1QqYBOrYjA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1QqYBOrYjA python code: git://github.com/paulgribble/metronomes.git