Neville Michie <namic...@gmail.com> wrote: > The conical pendulum has a simple form of a weight on a string, instead > of oscillating in one plane as a conventional pendulum, it swings around > in a circular orbit in the horizontal plane. It has a definite resonant > frequency.
I don't think it does have a resonant frequency, any more than the Earth does: the angular velocity of the pendulum is sqrt(g/h) where h is the height of the pendulum; give it more energy, it swings higher, so h is smaller, so the frequency is higher. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode South Thames, Dover: Southwesterly 5 or 6. Slight or moderate. Rain or showers. Good, occasionally poor. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
