Tag: Advent 2012
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Chaos! (Science Advent 3)
(Every day until Christmas, I’ll be posting a science-related image.) Day 3 Colloquially, “chaotic” means random, but that’s not what it implies in a scientific context. Take the image above: this is a plot of the velocity of a pendulum as a function of its position, taken over many cycles. A normal pendulum would describe…
Galileo's Pendulum 