KPendulum Setup

The pendulum swings from optimism to pessimism and then back again.

Simulation of a two part pendulum

Tom Shannon The painter and the pendulum

He's tight as a tick. Look at him.

like if you're in physics class, you're going to do it in a much more fun way by using this simulation here.

I slam the door behind me, climb up, go past this place where I see a pendulum ticking.

If he swing by the string He will hear the bell ring

And I'm thinking, Oh yeah, the square root of the length is proportional to its period.

So the evolution of this I gather this isn't your first pendulum.

You're using your built in dynamics, the physics of your body, just like a pendulum.

But with the pendulum, it allows me to manifest these invisible forces that are holding the magnets up.

People make simulations, so if you want to understand how a pendulum works,

This is one reason why so many people have felt estranged from their political leaders. But it would be unfortunate indeed, dangerous if the pendulum now swung back to old fashioned nationalism.

And then you can go and modify things on the side to see how different variables affect the pendulum.

Two minutes, two minutes, two minutes.

10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 9 o'clock.

10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 9 o'clock.

Yeah, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 9 o'clock.

How many more minutes? Two, one?

Second by second, minute by minute, it's cutting off our heads!

20! 30 minutes, 40 minutes. What of it?

Three seconds. Two seconds.

I've got my 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 9 o'clock.

Dimitri, just waggle your arm around.

One view is that Russian politics is like a pendulum. It had swung too far in the direction of chaos under Yeltsin, and has now swung too far in the direction of order and state control under Putin.

It had swung too far in the direction of chaos under Yeltsin, and has now swung too far in the direction of order and state control under Putin. It has not swung back to Stalinism Czarism might be a better historical metaphor.

10 o'clock, 11 o'clock...

Yes?

This clock loses three minutes a day.

You got 10 minutes, folks. Ten minutes.

11 minutes, Dave only 11 minutes!

Then one o'clock.

In that ugly hotel room...

Five seconds, 10 seconds, 40 seconds, 50 seconds, two minutes, four minutes, eight minutes.

So you put four on this one to make it light up and two on this one to make it light up.

And you better not stagger, and you better not fight...

Lewis Pugh Ten seconds to swim. Ten seconds to swim.

Fifteen minutes one way, 45 back.

There's one in 20 minutes, at 7 00.

Yet today the pendulum has arguably swung too far in the opposite direction. Perhaps scholars who argue that Islamic financial systems prohibition on interest generates massive inefficiencies ought to be looking at these systems for positive ideas that Western policymakers might adopt.

To stop it as it swings towards optimism, we will need, as never before, to see to it that the international community can find and cultivate the virtues of inclusion and justice, for otherwise we will see develop before our eyes, to an increasing degree, a world of cruel and pitiless violence.

The TV shouldn't be so close. Put it a little further back.

We set the place on fire, each in his way.

Ten more minutes! We leave in ten minutes.