[time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weaklycoupled oscillators

[Bob Camp]

Hi

My *guess* would be that you would need to setup a situation that favored
the lock. Simple outflow clocks probably aren't going to lock. Any of the
escarpment designs have the potential to lock. 

Past that, sounds like a good reason to build up some on a flimsy shelf and
see what happens.

Bob



-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
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Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:27 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weaklycoupled
oscillators

Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The tendency of clocks to self synchronize dates back at least to the
> days of pendulum clocks. It may date to the era of water clocks, but
> if so it's undocumented. It has been observed on a wide range of
> modern clock designs. If you look into "injection locking" you'll get
> a pretty good picture of what's going on.
> 
> 

Oooh.  Clepsydra  (is that also the plural?).. one of my favorite topics..

It never occurred to me that they might couple, although almost every
other mechanical clock does.

What would the mechanism be?
How could one set up an experiment?

(hey, it's getting to be summertime, and my kids need projects that 
might get them wet)

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