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Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2013

Session Number:C2L-C

Session:

Number:400

On Experiments of Synchronization

Tohru Ikeguchi,  Yutaka Shimada,  

pp.400-403

Publication Date:

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.2.400

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Summary:
Synchronization is ubiquitous in our world. We can see various synchronization phenomena in our daily life. In this article, we review several experiments on synchronization of metronomes, candle fires, PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottles, conducted in our laboratory. We also review that in 1988 synchronization phenomena have already occurred at the Toda Koen Ohashi, a long bridge in Toda city, Saitama, Japan, similar phenomena to the synchronization of the Millennium bridge in London.

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