Simulation of a two part pendulum

All right, so, I've got a metronome, and it's the world's smallest metronome, the well, I shouldn't advertise.

As an example, let's take a beautiful, old, mechanical grandfather clock.

Anyway, so this is the world's smallest metronome.

I slam the door behind me, climb up, go past this place where I see a pendulum ticking.

Observers debate whether it will eventually reach a new equilibrium.

) Coriolis, G.G., 1832 Mémoire sur le principe des forces vives dans les mouvements relatifs des machines.

It has not swung back to Stalinism Czarism might be a better historical metaphor.

It had swung too far in the direction of chaos under Yeltsin, and has now swung too far in the direction of order and state control under Putin.

Like the peoples of other United Nations Members who have fought for their freedom, thousands of Nicaraguans have died for it, victims of a perverse pendulum that swung from authoritarianism to totalitarianism.

In the decade after September 11, 2001, the pendulum of public sentiment swung too far to the security pole but it has begun to swing back in the absence of major new terrorist attacks.