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Pendulum Waves

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:44:34 +0000

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion. For more details see sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The length of each successive shorter pendulum is carefully adjusted so that it executes one additional oscillation in this period. Thus, the 15th pendulum (shortest) undergoes 65 oscillations. Our apparatus was built from a design published by Richard Berg [Am J Phys 59(2), 186-187 (1991)] at the University of Maryland. The particular apparatus shown here was built by our own Nils Sorensen. Like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com Video courtesy of Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations, © 2010 President and Fellows of Harvard College

Harvard’s Birthday Cake

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:54:09 +0000

Harvard University is celebrating its 375th birthday this year, and we needed a REALLY big cake. Joanne Chang (‘91), the owner of Flour Bakery, obliged.

Seth MacFarlane’s Harvard Class Day Speech AS PETER (2 of 4)

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:45:06 +0000

Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy and American Dad!) gives his advice to Harvard graduates as Peter Griffin. See Parts 3-4 for Stewie and Quagmire.

Harvard Medical School in Motion

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:46:08 +0000

Welcome to Harvard Medical School, where a vibrant community is shaping the future of education and biomedicine. This is a place where bold ideas are incubated, a place where extraordinary individuals working as teams tackle tough problems with unrelenting passion. In the past year alone, the school has moved in exciting new directions, propelled by the expertise and energy of its faculty, staff and students.

2 Harvard Mark IV’s

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:56:24 +0000

Image taken on 2011-07-21 18:01:47 by _Brian_M.

Harvard Comparative Zoology Labs

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:47:05 +0000

Image taken on 2010-08-17 11:39:03 by Dancing Lemur.

JK Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:45:13 +0000

JKRowling at Harvard Commencement. Read more at goo.gl

Mark Zuckerberg Visits Harvard

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:49:28 +0000

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returns to Harvard.

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 2)

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:13:13 +0000

Video of Bill Gates Speech at Harvard

Seth MacFarlane’s Harvard Class Day Speech QUAGMIRE (4 of 4)

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:43:02 +0000

Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy and American Dad!) gives his advice to Harvard graduates as the womanizer neighbor Glenn Quagmire. See parts 1-3 for more hilarity.