How to pronounce “pendula” in English

which is to take all the messy world around us with all its peculiarities and specificities, and to boil it down to really, really simple systems.You might imagine or remember when you were taking physics courses, there were frictionless surfaces, there were pendula that rocked back and forth perfectly.We're always idealizing, we're always imagining there are no complications, and then we're putting them back in.