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Monday Afternoon Diversion: The Pendulum

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 23, 2012 8:20PM

We're in the proverbial weeds today, so we've been looking for something to calm us down a bit. Here's the perfect tonic: 15 uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dancing together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion.