Rotterdam designer David Derksen has decorated a set of plates by employing the oscillations of a pendulum to drip patterns of paint (+ movie). The patterns on Derksen's prototype Oscillation Plates ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Quarterly of Applied Mathematics contains original papers in applied mathematics which have a close connection with ...

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made several ...

A Foucault pendulum, or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Leon Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth; its action is a result of the ...

A physical pendulum undergoes simple harmonic motion when displaced by a small angle. The oscillations are no longer simple harmonic motion when it is released from a large angle. The pendulum's pivot ...

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 20, No. 1 (APRIL, 1962), pp. 21-32 (12 pages) The equations of motion for a lightly damped spherical pendulum that is subjected to harmonic excitation in a plane ...