And, in fact, the mass of the "shake table" has a big impact on the lock time, as does the mass of everything else besides the mass of the pendulum weights. Would there be a natural resonant frequency of the non-moving masses (shake table etc) that could prevent lockup?
Bob >________________________________ > From: Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> >Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 10:39 PM >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Example of clocks interlocking with each other > > ><snip> > >In the context of metronomes, the platform is the shake table and it vibrates >at the consensus frequency with some noise. It might be fun for a time-nuts >geek[1] to measure and analyze the motion of the table and/or see how that >motion interacts with a set of metronomes. > >---------- > >Has anybody measured any collection of typical crystals when their power (or >whatever) is deliberately coupled? (or at least not isolated) > >------- > >1] Is geek and time-nuts redundant? > > > >-- >These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > >_______________________________________________ >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. > > > _______________________________________________ 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.