{"id":5806,"date":"2010-06-25T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5806"},"modified":"2010-06-25T03:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T08:00:21","slug":"the-leroy-anderson-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5806","title":{"rendered":"The Leroy Anderson Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metronome Synchronization<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W1TMZASCR-I?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W1TMZASCR-I?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Putting them on the board allows them to couple, so vibrations from each can interfere and the most efficient energy transfer is when they are in phase.  I&#8217;ve read that this trick was exploited by sellers of pendulum clocks, back in the day \u2014 by hanging the clocks on one wall, they would similarly tend to synchronize.  This would give the customer the impression that all of the products were high quality clocks when that was not the case, though you could not tell from the pricetag \u2014 the poor clocks were being driven by a few good ones.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Syncopated_Clock\">Leroy Anderson<\/a> was the composer of <em>The Syncopated Clock<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metronome Synchronization You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Putting them on the board allows them to couple, so vibrations from each can interfere and the most efficient energy transfer is when they are in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-time","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}