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For the trip to the Boerhaave Museum I really enjoyed the portion of the tour in reference to Christaan Hugyen's work on pendulums. The fact that he was able to quantify and mathematically determine the relation between gravity and potential energy of a pendulum into a useful mechanical energy source (i.e. pendulum) to create a pendulum clock was not only fascinating but a proven useful too to European, and following societal, eras. Also, the fact that Hugyen used a variety of mathematics as well as invented his own math in an attempt to solve the issue of pendulum movement was very interesting. However, not all attempts or assumptions are correct even for great minds like Hugyen. This was proven true by the Hugyen finding his calculations incorrect after five years of work.
I also thought the pendulums in the museum were fun to hear about. Being a naturally curious person, I also found it interesting that one of his clocks is closed and is being restricted from showing visitors it's internal working mechanism. It makes me really curious to know what they are hiding inside the pendulum clock.
ReplyDeleteThe difficulty of math is found at different levels, I am not going to lie I found a bit of dark humor that a great mind of an inventor was able to get stuck, then I remember he created it, so more math, and think he deserved it. But yes the process is very interesting.
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