The trigger was a type of learning sheet that you stick to places like the bathroom.Various mechanisms were introduced ...

A basic pendulum is a mass at the end of a string that swings back and forth. It seems simple, and it appears in most introductory physics textbooks. But it's not a trivial problem to solve for the ...

This is a requested post. Clearly, I do requests. The idea here is that I am going to give all the details needed to determine the equation of motion (and then model it) for a basic pendulum. Warning: ...

A Foucault pendulum is a simple device for observing the Earth's rotation. While such pendulums have been around for more than 150 years and are a staple of the modern science museum, they are ...

Have some wood and 16 spare bowling balls on hand? Why not make a huge pendulum wave? Due to conservation of energy, a weight on a pendulum that is released will swing out and hit a point of ...