2026-05-14 03:14 UTC
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social
That explains why I've never seen a skateboarder holding a metronome.
Here's a pdf of a paper which explains the phenomenon:
https://pages.mtu.edu/~struther/Courses/OLD/Fall2014/4535/PDFs/Syncronization_of_metronomes_Pantaleone.pdf
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@zillion@freeradical.zone 2026-05-14 05:12
@rayotron@mstdn.social @wonderofscience@mastodon.social tldr: Moving the base of a pendulum gives it a push. Since they are all sitting on the same moving plank, they are all being pushed in synchrony.