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Miscellaneous: Chaotic Pendulum (Clip)

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00:05:00

A short video created about an iconic exhibit at the Exploratorium, Ned Kahn's Chaotic Pendulum. An apparently simple set of pendulums is given an initial twist. Intuition says that the resulting motion of this simple system should be, if not simple, at least predictable. Intuition doesn't work with this device though, and its motion is an extremely complicated, and somewhat whimsical, twisting and turning that defies the predictive powers of physics.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: February 24, 2011
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

Keywords: chaotic pendulum, ned kahn, exploratorium, science, art

Miscellaneous: Earl Stirling and his Pyrograph (Clip)

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00:10:24

Exploratorium staff member Earl Stirling demonstrates the amazing "Pyrograph", an artwork refined over four years. Like a fiery version of the museum’s classic Drawing Board, Stirling’s "Pyrograph" swings a pendulum over a sandy cauldron, tracing out oscillating patterns in colorful fire. This mesmerizing piece evokes both the Foucault pendulum and Dante’s Inferno.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: January 28, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Chemistry, Physics

Keywords: earl, dodger, stirling, foucault, pendulum, fire, propane, art, pyrograph, sodium, electron

Miscellaneous: Pendulum Camera (Clip)

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00:03:19

Catch a glimpse of the floor as viewed from atop the concrete pendulum on the Exploratorium's Mezzanine.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: January 27, 2010
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): art, Physics

Keywords: pendulum, museum, mezzanine, point of view, pov

After Dark: Fire and Ice: Pyrograph in Slow Motion (Clip)

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00:00:52

Slow motion footage of Pyrograph, a work by Earl "Dodger" Stirling that has been described as a cross between Dante's Inferno and the Foucault Pendulum. Like a fiery version of the Exploratorium's classic Drawing Board exhibit, Pyrograph swings a pendulum across a sandy, flaming cauldron and traces out oscillating patterns in colorful fire.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: December 3, 2009
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Art, Chemistry

Keywords: pyrograph, fire, sand, earl sterling, after dark, pendulum, patterns, salts

Exhibit Services: Chaotic Pendulum (Clip)

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00:00:15

The Chaotic Pendulum exhibit contains a deceptively simple set of pendulums in a steel and Plexiglas case. The visitor twists a protruding knob, expecting the resulting motion to be fairly predictable. But the device's motion is chaotic, extremely complicated and long-lived.

Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All

Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics

Keywords: pendulum, chaos, motion

QuickTime: 285K

Origins: Antarctica: Antarctica: Penguins and Sprytes (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:38:57

Do you know what a 'Spryte' is? Watch this webcast to learn more and see footage from the Penguin Ranch in Antarctica!

Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All

Date: December 16, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Sciences/Biology

Keywords: communications in antarctica, foucalt pendulum in antarctica, foucault's pendulum in antarctica, transportation in antarctica, emperor penguin footage, emperor penguin ranch, emperor prenguin colony, emperor penguin research, penguins with underwater cameras, pen

Real: 80K


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