Pendulum Waves

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