On 11/20/19 5:51 PM, Bill Beam wrote:
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:10:14 -0500, Philip Gladstone wrote:
I've started to monitor the individual ticks on a grandfather clock from
the 1790s. Essentially I timestamp whenever the pendulum breaks/restores a
light beam.
The data that I get is surprising in that the pendulum swing varies
according to the position of the hands on the clock. It appears that the
Most people interested in this problem have been dead for about 200 years.
Also note that as the clock gets old and dirty it will begin to stop at 8:45.
Now if you want to see another old interesting clock problem look up the
'Thursday afternoon effect'.
Now this time-geek-y stuff is why this list is interesting.
I'm waiting for someone to have hooked up a bunch of cheap metronomes on
a common base to an array of TICCs...
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