Quantum pendulum clock overcomes classical accuracy limits and sheds light on quantum to classical transitions

In a grandfather clock, a pendulum swings back and forth and this periodic motion is maintained using the energy stored in ...
Wired

Modeling a Pendulum's Swing Is Way Harder Than You Think

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 ...
Hackaday

What To Do When Your Foucault Pendulum Stops Swinging

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, ...
New Scientist

First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm ...
The Atlantic

Building an Impossible Clock

As a rule, Donald Saff doesn’t collect clocks he can’t see inside of. It’s the harmonic entanglement of gears—and the skill needed to craft them—that first lured him to horology, the study of ...
Wired

Can You Determine Pi With a Pendulum?

The answer is yes. Yes, you can get a value of pi using a pendulum. Well, you need a few other things. Of course, this is the experimental part of my previous post on the connection between pi and the ...
Cosmopolitan

Can’t Make a Decision? Try a Pendulum

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Remember Magic 8-Balls? If you ever had one, you probably asked it fun questions, like if your latest ...