{"id":7183,"date":"2012-07-06T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/07\/06\/the-physics-of-a-falling-slinky\/"},"modified":"2012-07-06T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T07:00:01","slug":"the-physics-of-a-falling-slinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120706-01\/?p=7183","title":{"rendered":"The physics of a falling Slinky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/\"> Professor Ted Bunn<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?node=694510&amp;tag=tholneth-20\">no relation<\/a>), who still gets email about <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmology.berkeley.edu\/Education\/BHfaq.html\"> a Black Holes FAQ<\/a> he wrote over fifteen years ago, recently blogged about what happens when you suspend a Slinky vertically, then let go.\n <i>No wait, come back<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> In <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2012\/06\/25\/fun-for-a-girl-and-a-boy\/\"> Part the First<\/a>, he provides an alternate (but equivalent) explanation for the phenomenon.\n Allen Downey on his wonderfully-titled blog <a href=\"http:\/\/allendowney.blogspot.com\/\"> <i>Probably Overthinking It<\/i><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/allendowney.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/falling-slinky-problem.html\"> started in with the equations<\/a>, which inspired Ted to write <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2012\/06\/26\/more-on-the-slinky\/\"> Part the Second<\/a>, which contains with lots of math, <i>but there are also charts<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> Okay, fine, I don&#8217;t blame you for leaving. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ted Bunn (no relation), who still gets email about a Black Holes FAQ he wrote over fifteen years ago, recently blogged about what happens when you suspend a Slinky vertically, then let go. No wait, come back. In Part the First, he provides an alternate (but equivalent) explanation for the phenomenon. Allen Downey on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Professor Ted Bunn (no relation), who still gets email about a Black Holes FAQ he wrote over fifteen years ago, recently blogged about what happens when you suspend a Slinky vertically, then let go. No wait, come back. In Part the First, he provides an alternate (but equivalent) explanation for the phenomenon. Allen Downey on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}