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Re: Explanation for Resonant Coupling?



Conservation of Energy. Assuming a loss-less system, as the first pendulum
decreases the second must increase to maintain the same initial energy
(potential).



At 03:33 PM 1/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
I was wondering if someone could explain the following:

Tie a string horizontally above the ground. Tie two strings with small
balls attached to them (pendulums) to the horizontal string. Set one
pendulum in motion. Gradually it will come to a rest and the second
pendulum will begin oscillating. Then the second stops, the first resumes
and so on.

I was told it had to do with Resonant Coupling, but I still don't fully
understand it.

--Thomas
tmphilip@prontomail.com


Homer B. (Jim) James www.pitt.edu/~hbjst/homepage.htm
Adjunct Professor of Physics/Physical Science
Community College of Allegheny County
Dept. of Physics and Physical Science