Loading...The shortest pendulum would oscillate at the speed of light
Not sure if this idea is correct or not but I have been playing with it in my head for fun. So bear with me…. if you keep halving the length of a pendulum ad infinitum, it would go at breakneck speed right? Sort of like angular momentum when getting closer and closer to the centre of a playground roundabout.
… and the longest wouldn’t move at all…
I searched to see if this idea is right but can’t find an answer. I guess in practice you couldn’t have a infinitesimal length pendulum but in theory maybe you could. Anyways, I found this, which made sense, just doesn’t answer my question. Is this idea silly or a good way to practice physics and maths thinking?
Professor Dave would know the answer to this. But the answer might surprise us. maybe tiny quantum pendulums are why we can’t quite tell where things actually are.
Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world. I guess this works backwards too. nice idea.