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physics can be beautiful - Ombligo - 01-11-2012
You may recall from a Mechanics course that the period of a pendulum is proportional to the square root
of the length of the line suspending the weight - i..e., the longer the pendulum, the slower it swings.
Some Harvard students built a device with a series of 15 pendulums in a row, each one slightly longer than its neighbor, then set them in motion and filmed the result.
It is simple direct and inverse relationship driven but it is also quite mesmerizing to watch..
http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16940&pageid=icb.page80863&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent341734&state=maximize&view=view.do&viewParam_name=indepth.html#a_icb_pagecontent341734
Re: physics can be beautiful - N-OS X-tasy! - 01-11-2012
A link would be lovely...
EDIT: ...and there it is!
Re: physics can be beautiful - Marc Anthony - 01-11-2012
That's really cool. Thanks.
Re: physics can be beautiful - haikuman - 01-11-2012
This will drive many or mini dudes crrrazzzy after a fat boy ~!~!~!~ :devil::priate:
Re: physics can be beautiful - clay - 01-11-2012
I keep thinking it will stop, but then it just keeps on going!
Re: physics can be beautiful - space-time - 01-11-2012
Nice! Thanks
Re: physics can be beautiful - NewtonMP2100 - 01-12-2012
....if that is the PENDULUM.....where is the PIT.......????