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Double pendulum really swings!

Flickr member yamamo2 and his dad built this high performance double pendulum (aka chaos machine) and dang - can this thing get down or what? Instant physics party anytime! unless of course you happen to close and catch a stray pendulum to the noggin … physics party foul, indeed :(

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Posted by: Jasper on November 5, 2009 at 7:58 AM

LED + long exposure + really dark room + double pendulum please

seriously! Attach a little LED on the end of that thing and get us some long exposure shots of it in motion! I want to see the trail :D

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Posted by: Silverman on November 5, 2009 at 11:07 AM

What about this?
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DoublePendulum/

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Posted by: Dax on November 5, 2009 at 11:23 AM

Double Pendulum with LED tracking

Ask and ye shall receive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DPLE.jpg

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Posted by: Anonymous on November 5, 2009 at 3:52 PM

Picture from Wikipedia.org:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DPLE.jpg

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Posted by: japroach on November 5, 2009 at 11:02 PM

jasper, click the wiki link for exactly that :)

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