Huygens (and others) revisited.
We develop a generic iterative map model of coupled oscillators based on simple physical processes common to many such systems. The model allows us to understand, from a unified perspective, the range of different outcomes reported for experiments by Huygens and modern realizations of his two coupled clocks.
Center for Nonlinear Science and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 837 State Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, USA.
Kurt
K
Wiesenfeld
Daniel
D
Borrero-Echeverry
D003198:Computer Simulation; D005246:Feedback; D015233:Models, Statistical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods*