[time-nuts] NPR story on coupled pendulums
Bill Beam
wbeam at gci.net
Wed Jul 29 19:22:39 EDT 2015
These University Of Lisbon "Scientists" have rediscovered a very old wheel.
Old physics: Two coupled nearly identical harmonic oscillators have two stable states.
They will operate with relative phase = zero or 180deg. How they are coupled is not
an issue; they only need to be able to transfer energy one to the other.
Regards
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:44:19 -0500, Bill Hawkins wrote:
>They talk about sound pulses affecting the pendulums.
>Sounds more likely that the mechanical vibration transmitted through the
>aluminum bar affects the escapements.
>Perhaps the 'tock' side generates the strongest pulse, and the 'tick'
>side is sensitive enough to be affected by that pulse.
>That would soon have the clocks synchronized out of phase, provided the
>mounting arrangement did not absorb too much of the pulse energy.
>The situation is similar to synchronizing a TV vertical oscillator
>(running a bit slow) with the received sync pulse from the broadcast
>station, no?
>Bill Hawkins
>-----Original Message-----
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>Murray
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>Subject: [time-nuts] NPR story on coupled pendulums
>University Of Lisbon Scientists Solve Pendulum Clock Mystery
>Two professors at the University of Lisbon say they have discovered why
>the pendulums of clocks set on the same surface will eventually swing
>together in opposing directions.
>http://www.npr.org/2015/07/28/427178282/university-of-lisbon-scientists-
>solve-
>pendulum-clock-mystery
>I thought the NPR story was not very interesting. (But it probably
>wasn't targeted at time-nuts. :)
>----------
>Here is the paper:
> Huygens synchronization of two clocks
> http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150723/srep11548/full/srep11548.html
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