Re: Gravity and attenuation of a pendulum

You are right about the niose, but I think that such an experiment
might be possible with modern materials.

What you want to do is induce a very small impulse, over and over
again, resonant with the natural frequency of the pendulum.

After a while it should be swinging through a very large arc.

The only problem is that the gravity wave generator is going around in
circles, and so the path of the weights is sometimes pulling on the
pendulum obliquely. The pendulum might want to take a path with an
angular component, and that would really screw things up if it starts
going in circles - I think.

If you could get the whole thing spinning and swinging in the same
plane, you'd probably have an easier time achieving resonance.

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