Synchronisation

Synchronisation of 5 coupled metronomes done in Lancaster University, Physics Dep (http://www.youtube.com/user/lancaster...), Nonlinear dynamics and medical physics group.
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Some explanation by 'shoonya' which I think is pretty good:

Here you go: metronomes (or "pendula") when on table, oscillate with random phases, since that is how they started and they are "uncoupled" (no energy/information flows from one to other so they do not "know" each other.) When they are all together on the cans, notice that the cans themselves oscillate little, providing coupling/information crossover. which forces "synchronization" in periodic systems (discovered by Huygens in 17th century).
A useful book: "Synchronization: A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences " by Arkady Pikovsky, Michael Rosenblum and Jurgen Kurths.


A scientific article: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servl...
My personal homepage:
https://sites.google.com/site/alireza...

Reference to the original video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RMVxVbCIPjg

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[dogdove]

This is not helping me fix my car AT ALL.

[bigbluemusic]

Explains why most drummers improve on a couple of cans!

[nuberiffic]

i love how the camera starts wobbling in sync too

[Matthew DeMerritt]

Also sometimes called entrainment

[mobileusa11]

I saw the strings!

[Jessy Corrales]

Wah??

[Illutian Kade]

Also known under the broad definition: Wizardry :P

[Ineke van der Berg]

This is Satan's work.

[LBrobie]

It's about the principle of resonance.

[alexandramelograno]

I don't get it. What is it all about?

[Olivia Gay]

This is fucking mind blowing.

[speebyda]

Is that another way of saying abracadabra?