Hypnotic Video of the Week

This video of a line of swinging pendulums is simply mesmerizing. Watch it just for the fascinating pleasure of it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkdfJ9PkRQ[/youtube] Then, if you want to know more about the science behind it, check out the details page at the website of Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations — they’re the folks who created the video. […]

This video of a line of swinging pendulums is simply mesmerizing. Watch it just for the fascinating pleasure of it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkdfJ9PkRQ[/youtube]

Then, if you want to know more about the science behind it, check out the details page at the website of Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations -- they're the folks who created the video. As they tell it, the video shows:

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion

As I tell it: Cool.

Via: Nathan Bransford