We teach the youth that the period of a pendulum is independent of its amplitude •This isn't quite true. It's only true for 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 angles θ •In reality, a pendulum's period is only independent of its amplitude if it moves along a cycloidpic.twitter.com/0si5dAcAuV
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does this completely match with the small angle angle approximation?
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wow that's very interesting, as far as i remember Huygens designed a pendulum clock which is swung around a cycloid.
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yea! he did that because he wanted to make a clock that kept good time on ships if i recall
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