OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
The period T of a simple gravity pendulum for arbitrary amplitudes is given by a complicated formula, see A223067. The Taylor series expansion of T as a function of the angular displacement phi leads for the denominators of the even powers of phi to the sequence given above and for the numerators to A223067.
EXAMPLE
T = 2*Pi*sqrt(L/g) * (1 + (1/16)*phi^2 + (11/3072)*phi^4 + (173/737280)*phi^6 + ... ).
MAPLE
nmax:=11: f := series(1/((Pi/4)*(1+cos(phi/2))/EllipticK((1-cos(phi/2))/(1+cos(phi/2)))), phi, 2*nmax+1): for n from 0 to nmax do a(n):= denom(coeff(f, phi, 2*n)) od: seq(a(n), n=0..nmax); # Johannes W. Meijer, Jan 05 2017
MATHEMATICA
s = Series[EllipticK[Sin[t/2]^2 ], {t, 0, 50}]; CoefficientList[2*s, t^2] // Denominator (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 07 2014 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,frac
AUTHOR
Johannes W. Meijer, Mar 14 2013
STATUS
approved