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What are the similarities and differences between pendulums and spring oscillators?
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Philip Morrison gave the 1968 Christmas Lectures “Gulliver’s Travels” which focused on the importance of scale in science. Taking inspiration from Dean Swift’s Gulliver in the lands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag , we go on a journey from the fundamental building blocks of the universe to the stellar size of of our galaxy.
In his sixth lecture, Philip Morrison looks at the form and function of a simple vibrator at various scales.
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these are great
Ocelotors are also nice, but it's admittedly very hard to tie a live ocelot to a string.
Keep uploading these old videos they are such a treasure!
Very nicely explained!!
I want to be a kid again and just attend everyone of these.
awesome
How do you measure oscillations? With "a-silly-scope"! 😀
Stop uploading these old videos. I could watch these all day and I've got stuff to get done!
You can actually see from the shadows on his jacket that a pendulum is pretty much the same as a spring-oscillator.
How do you titillate an ocelot?
The Brain/Mind 'Oscillates' between two spheres and the process of Thought itself 'Oscillates' between Induction and Deduction
Excellent demo.
I had him as physics professor. He was great.
while the period of the spring does depend on the mass..thats what he meant to say at the end!