Pendulum Waves

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion. For more details see http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/pendulum-waves

Topics

  • pendulum
  • monotone
  • traveling waves
  • standing waves
  • beating
  • motion
  • beats
  • frequency