Szilard Boda, Zoltan Neda, Botond Tyukodi, Arthur Tunyagi
Spontaneous synchronization of an ensemble of metronomes placed on a freely rotating platform is studied experimentally and by computer simulations. The experiments revealed that independently of the initial conditions and metronome numbers on the platform, only in-phase synchronization is observable. The conditions favoring the emergence of this collective behavior is investigated. It is found that there is a limiting natural frequency of the metronomes below which spontaneous synchronization is not observable. Increasing the number of metronomes on the platform leads to a decreasing trend in the synchronization level and a longer time to achieve this.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3175
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