Confounding, isn't it?

I love Pendulums.

Have you ever seen what happens with a bunch of pendulum metronomes on a freely moving table? It's pretty cool.

Wait, what?

I wanted to do physics but I suck at maths(so I chose that for A-Level :/) and took Bio for a science instead

Confounding, isn't it?

Indeed, indeed...

I love Pendulums.

Have you ever seen what happens with a bunch of pendulum metronomes on a freely moving table? It's pretty cool.

Yes I have

Wait, what?

I wanted to do physics but I suck at maths(so I chose that for A-Level :/) and took Bio for a science instead

Wait what as in...?

Thankfully maths is only a part of physics... and it's 'learnable' (if that's a word xD), really.

Valenti, on , said:

 

Confounding, isn't it?

 

Indeed, indeed...

 

 

Eeko, on , said:

 

I love Pendulums.

Have you ever seen what happens with a bunch of pendulum metronomes on a freely moving table? It's pretty cool.

 

Yes I have

 

 

III IV VII, on , said:

 

Wait, what?

I wanted to do physics but I suck at maths(so I chose that for A-Level :/) and took Bio for a science instead

Wait what as in...?

 

Thankfully maths is only a part of physics... and it's 'learnable' (if that's a word xD), really.

I meant wait, what? as in Im confused, but dont judge

Also learnable is underlined in red, but your asking the wrong person because I suck at English. In fact, I suck at everything apart from getting injured on my right hand side

What's even cooler is when you reduce the simple pendulum to a one-dimensional problem (since the physical situation only depends on the angle at which the pendulum deviates from vertical) and realize that Cartesian coordinates are a terrible choice for physical situations with angular symmetry.

And then there's quantum mechanics...

I meant wait, what? as in Im confused, but dont judge

Also learnable is underlined in red, but your asking the wrong person because I suck at English. In fact, I suck at everything apart from getting injured on my right hand side

Hey, no problem, I was just trying to find out what confused you: the fact that the pendulum clock goes wrong once the elevator accelerates, whereas time stays the same, or if it was something different. I by no means intended to make fun of you or something, I was just wondering if you could specify your question so that I can answer it better.

And don't feel bad about yourself, your English is fine! =)

(Heh, right, learnable can't really be a word, but yesterday evening I was far too tired to check it xD)

Also, if it makes you feel any better, my English was pretty bad when I joined BZPower, too. It gets better over time. *pokes*

What's even cooler is when you reduce the simple pendulum to a one-dimensional problem (since the physical situation only depends on the angle at which the pendulum deviates from vertical) and realize that Cartesian coordinates are a terrible choice for physical situations with angular symmetry.

 

And then there's quantum mechanics...

 

Cartesian coordinates seem to be a bad choice for ANY problem that involves at least SOME form of movement similar to rotation. >< I still hate polar coordinates, though.

Yay for quantum mechanics that I don't have to deal with right now because I only just got started with Physics.