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Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect: Why Weat...
Edward Lorenz found that a tiny change in the starting numbers of a simple weather model led to a completely different forecast. That is the butterfly effect. Here are the...
Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect: Why Weat...
Edward Lorenz found that a tiny change in the starting numbers of a simple weather model led to a completely different forecast. That is the butterfly effect. Here are the...
Noether’s Theorem: Why Symmetry Means Conservation
Why is energy conserved? Why is momentum? In 1918 Emmy Noether gave a single answer: because the laws of physics have symmetries. Here is her theorem in plain language, a...
Noether’s Theorem: Why Symmetry Means Conservation
Why is energy conserved? Why is momentum? In 1918 Emmy Noether gave a single answer: because the laws of physics have symmetries. Here is her theorem in plain language, a...
Kater's Reversible Pendulum: Measuring Gravity ...
How do you measure gravity with a swinging bar when nobody can say exactly how long the bar is? Henry Kater’s 1817 trick: hang it both ways up and tune...
Kater's Reversible Pendulum: Measuring Gravity ...
How do you measure gravity with a swinging bar when nobody can say exactly how long the bar is? Henry Kater’s 1817 trick: hang it both ways up and tune...
The Duffing Oscillator: Hardening Springs, Jump...
Make a spring stiffer the more you stretch it, push it back and forth, and its resonance bends, jumps and can turn chaotic. Here is the Duffing oscillator: hardening and...
The Duffing Oscillator: Hardening Springs, Jump...
Make a spring stiffer the more you stretch it, push it back and forth, and its resonance bends, jumps and can turn chaotic. Here is the Duffing oscillator: hardening and...
The Brachistochrone: Finding the Fastest Way Down
What shape of ramp gets a ball to the bottom fastest? Not a straight line, and not Galileo's circle. Here is the 1696 brachistochrone challenge, the cycloid that answers it,...
The Brachistochrone: Finding the Fastest Way Down
What shape of ramp gets a ball to the bottom fastest? Not a straight line, and not Galileo's circle. Here is the 1696 brachistochrone challenge, the cycloid that answers it,...
Lissajous Figures: When Two Oscillations Draw
Combine two perpendicular oscillations and you get a Lissajous figure. Here is the math behind the shapes, how engineers read frequency and phase from them, and where they turn up,...
Lissajous Figures: When Two Oscillations Draw
Combine two perpendicular oscillations and you get a Lissajous figure. Here is the math behind the shapes, how engineers read frequency and phase from them, and where they turn up,...