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Marty Champions

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is the synching of metronomes a myth?
« on: February 29, 2016, 06:33:15 AM »
pretty fascinating vids on youtube
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Re: is the synching of metronomes a myth?
« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2016, 07:18:17 AM »
Not a myth, but significantly easier if the oscillators share a uniformly kinetically responsive medium (i.e: the moving sheet on rollers in the video).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuramoto_model

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Re: is the synching of metronomes a myth?
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2016, 03:32:23 AM »


I have been told by a watch repairman that two pendulum clocks on the same wall will interfere with each other and neither will be able to keep the correct time.