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 ...

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 ...

Because a pendulum's oscillation frequency depends on its length, not its mass, you can use different colored bowling balls for a pretty effect. By Francie Diep Published Sep 8, 2014 7:20 PM EDT Get ...

THE oscillations of a long pendulum are observed to describe an ellipse the axis of which tends to set itself at right-angles to the plane in which the pendulum was started. An explanation of the ...