[BITList] Sunday Viewing

[John Feltham]

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>> You may recall that the period of a pendulum is proportional to the square root of the length of the line suspending the weight, ie the longer the pendulum, the slower it swings.
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>> 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.
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>> The resulting patterns in this short video are quite fascinating to watch .... sure, its physics but it is Fun!
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>> Or, is it art?
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>> Click Pendulum Waves
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