Physics Wave Pendulum

[Nick]

Looking at old saved videos, what's your thoughts on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M8ciWSgc_k

 

[Cognisant]

The hell, what kind of voodoo is this?

Those balls clearly sped up several times.

Edit: No wait, hang on...

 

[The Introvert]

Comprehension of alternating forces is the first step for comprehension of the universe.

I like to call it wavelength theory, for obvious reasons.

Spoiler

Or maybe not so obvious

 

[Nick]

Comprehension of alternating forces is the first step for comprehension of the universe.

My head simply denotes this as the yin and the yang, 1 and 0, all or nothing, but yes, finding the middle ground that is in between these two forces is usually where the magic comes in.

Waits to see if anyone relates this video to GATC.

 

[Architect]

It's a mechanically coupled system. I've seen other cool examples, one was ... oh I forget how they set it up, but it was a bunch of devices (things with springs or something) that were moving randomly, but they were coupled together through a base plate. After a half hour they all were in perfect sync - OH, I remember. It was a bunch of mechanical metronomes. The video is on YouTube, pretty cool.

It's not hard to understand, no different from

Every Engineers fear ...

 

[Duxwing]

It's a mechanically coupled system. I've seen other cool examples, one was ... oh I forget how they set it up, but it was a bunch of devices (things with springs or something) that were moving randomly, but they were coupled together through a base plate. After a half hour they all were in perfect sync - OH, I remember. It was a bunch of mechanical metronomes. The video is on YouTube, pretty cool.

It's not hard to understand, no different from

Every Engineers fear ...

Those pendulums are not necessarily connected by any sort of mechanism: their movements can be modeled as sine waves of differing periods (each is on a different length of string and therefore has a different "period"), which, if drawn over a sufficient length of x-axis (time) will eventually produce several interesting patterns like waves and synchronized lines. These patterns in the sine waves then transfer to patterns in the pendulums' positions, which, QED, eliminates the necessity of a mechanical inter-linkage in producing the patterns seen in the video.

-Duxwing

 

[SpaceYeti]

They're connected at the plate or bar to which their strings are attached and air currents.