this video of a series of swinging pendulums of different lengths is a lot cooler than i thought it would be! the time it takes for a pendulum to go through one swing back and forth (its "period") gets longer as the string length grows. longer string = longer period.
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That is fascinating! There must be a mathematical way to describe that.
Now that is amazing and with very very interesting patterns emerging!
Peace and clear skies!
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Science art!!!
Personally hate resonant frequencies.
Hey you just got a shout out on Bad Astronomy for this post. Neat!
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/01/
It's got legs! Jerry Coyne just posted it, along with a
link to the Harvard website that gives that mathematical explanation. A commenter on Coyne's blog added a YouTube video of Steve Reich's "Piano Phase" which is sort of an audio equivalent.
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/physics-art/#comments
rik - thats cool! i think i'll do a special post about the musical version!
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