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Magic Clock
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 5:47 am
by Advocate
Would this work to make a pendulum with an apparent randomized swing?
Pendulum with a free-spinning circular weight with an off-axis balance (acts as a dual- pendulum).
It could be a hollow weight with a rolling free weight in it or be full of two different density fluids.
Somebody wanna make one and put it on YouTube?
The clock would be wrong each tick but right on average.
Re: Magic Clock
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:04 am
by Advocate
What other mechanical methods could be used to store up energy and release it off-cue within the pendulum weight?
What's the maximum amount of quasi-randomness possible while still maintaining the average tick speed?
Re: Magic Clock
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:21 am
by Skepdick
What you are looking for is Lagrangian mechanics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics
The general/abstract property of a system where some property is preserved under transformation:
invariance.
Re: Magic Clock
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:51 am
by Advocate
[quote=Skepdick post_id=504713 time=1616995315 user_id=17350]
What you are looking for is Lagrangian mechanics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics
The general/abstract property of a system where some property is preserved under transformation: [url=
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_(mathematics)]invariance[/url].
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Ok, but fuck math, let's see a magic clock in action!
Re: Magic Clock
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:59 am
by Skepdick
Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:51 am
Ok, but fuck math, let's see a magic clock in action!
Oh! So you want somebody else to do the math/engineering/science/work for your entertainment?
Fucking philosopher.