Simple Pendulum Why Generalized Coordinate Always Angle? – physics.stackexchange.com

When writing the equations of motion for the simple pendulum, why do textbooks always choose $\theta$ to be the generalized coordinate? The force of gravity is in the y-direction so wouldn't it be ...

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