Figure 2. An illustration of FSS in the magnetic pendulum. Two initial conditions that are arbitrarily close together can give rise to subsequent trajectories that will start to move away from one another after a finite amount of time. The red path ends at magnet 1, while the black path ends at magnet 3.
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