Weird pendulum/rope

I tried making a pendulum/rope thing. It attaches to your cursor and you can move it around. Hold space it have it detached from your cursor.
pendulum.wick (2.1 KB)

It’s not perfect – for example, the pendulum loses energy when swinging even though I never programmed that in. And when you have a longer rope, the force of slightest movement amplifies as it propagates down the rope. These problems are probably caused by the fact that I don’t know how to properly apply the tension force, since I don’t have a lot of physics expertise.

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It is amazing. Thank you for sharing it. There is a weird glitch if you put 20 nodes… (well not sure… the first tie that I tried, it work great with 6, but now it doesn’t, not sure why)

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very nice experiment
always been fascinated by the phisics phenomenons