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2AeM is a cooperative design effort composed of the 3 young Midwestern-sprung, spread-the world-out, out-and-out Architecture student-architects: nicholas m. reiter, Jessie Wilcox and Peter Nguyen. The team base was originally Milwaukee, WI but since has become a mobile abstraction or a state of mind. 2AeM is sometimes physical, sometimes sober, partially virtual, usually vocal, and all-the-time IN-it.

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

math = cool




proof that math is cool!


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


for more details see science demonstrations


the period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. the length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. the length of each successive shorter pendulum is carefully adjusted so that it executes one additional oscillation in this period. Thus, the 15th pendulum (shortest) undergoes 65 oscillations.

this apparatus was built from a design published by richard berg [am j phys 59(2), 186-187 (1991)] at the university of maryland. the particular apparatus shown here was built by our own nils sorensen.
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