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Exercise 4

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Build a Wilberforce pendulum out of a Slinky Jr and a soup can. You can drill holes in the can for bolts, either two or four of them, that you can use to adjust the moment of inertia of the can so the periods of vertical and rotational motion coincide.

Hefferon, Linear Algebra, Similarity, Coupled Oscillators, Exercise 4

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Adapted from Linear Algebra © 2016 Jim Hefferon. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. Source: Linear Algebra. Imported at revision df2262e.