fun with physics
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:33 am
The strange things that amuse us when we ride.
I had great fun yesterday after discovering an interesting resonant
relationship on my KLR.
Stopped at a red light, I thought I recognized the driver behind me in
the mirror. But the mirrors were vibrating too much to see clearly. As
I often do, I just reached up with a gloved finger of my right hand and
touched the right mirror, to stop it vibrating. Then I noticed that the
left mirror wasn't vibrating.
Experiment, experiment...
It turns out that if you touch *either* mirror, *both* stop vibrating.
For the rest of the ride home, I amused myself with this new revelation
at all the red lights.