At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...
Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why. The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It ...
Check out Dr. Bob Grober on YouTube. I heard the term “harmonic oscillator” a few years ago and was lost until I found out it was simply a pendulum. Understanding how a pendulum works and how we can ...
The answer is yes. Yes, you can get a value of pi using a pendulum. Well, you need a few other things. Of course, this is the experimental part of my previous post on the connection between pi and the ...
In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...
We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Remember Magic 8-Balls? If you ever had one, you probably asked it fun questions, like if your latest ...
As a rule, Donald Saff doesn’t collect clocks he can’t see inside of. It’s the harmonic entanglement of gears—and the skill needed to craft them—that first lured him to horology, the study of ...
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