Recent content by billm

I've not got an answer to your 41 second problem but it may be not dissimilar to the Thursday effect for grandfather clocks. This causes longcase clocks to stop on Thursdays* i.e. when the pendulum is the same length as the (hanging) weights causing a transfer of energy to the (swinging) weights...

Can anybody advise where I might find details of the physics and maths of shower mixer taps. My shower behaves like a second order control system (damped temperature oscillation as a result of a step temperature change). How does this work?