<p>...the period of the pendulum is independent of the mass...</p>
<p>I don't get it.</p>
<p>It’s just true.</p>
<p>i wasn’t there cuz his lectures are a waste of time…what happened?</p>
<p>Pendulum is a girl. It’s true. Small girls can have *****y periods too</p>
<p>A heavier pendulum causes more momentum and it swings down faster, but it also has a long swing so it takes longer for it to come back down. A lighter pendulum has less momentum and swings down slower, but it doesn’t swing as far so it comes back down the same time as the heavier pendulum. Mass cancels out.</p>
<p>no, he told a story about galileo and swinging chandeliers and ended with that line–then got mad cuz nobody got it–it was supposed to be ‘one of the best physics jokes’, but also true. Then everybody started laughing and I got confused.</p>
<p>yeah, like I thought…useless lecture </p>
<p>…more useless professor</p>
<p>no doubt about religion (catholic church, mass) and whether science obeys religious dogma or exists as an independent truth. Remember he was tried by the inquisition for his support of the Copernican view that the planets orbit the sun. Actually a clever joke but you need to know a bit of history.</p>
<p>To quote Gallileo - “I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.”</p>
<p>lol-i was confused by that for a while.</p>
<p>god…fajans</p>
<p>What was the joke?</p>
<p>read through the topic…
and seriously. hw? dubya tee eff.</p>