Doubochinski’s
Pendulum
preliminary thoughts
Ernest Wong
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NZYPT 2015 Question 6
Make a light pendulum with a small magnet at the free end.
An adjacent electromagnet connected to an AC power source of a much higher frequency than the natural frequency of the pendulum can lead to undamped oscillations with various amplitudes.
Study and explain the phenomenon.
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Previous Work
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Discovery
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In 1968–1969,
the brothers, Danil and Yakov Doubochinski,
discovered interesting phenomenons with this pendulum.
They called it amplitude quantization.
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Usually the max angles of the pendulum
Restricting to discrete values.
Amplitude
Quantization
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Moreover, these amplitudes are
Stable
Video Demo
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Intro Reading
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But magazine known for its
pseudoscience
Very readable
Mechanisms
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Phase regulation
Velocity modulation
Velocity Modulation
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Articles In the Past
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1973
1989
2000
Asynchronous Excitation of Undamped Oscillations
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1973
Velocity modulation
Exhibits in systems with short interaction space.
Articles In the Past
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1973
1989
2000
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2006