Posted by: BABAL Khate December 12, 2011
The Fate of the Confused Nepali
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Khairey,

You said:
However high the friction is, it takes time to eventually come to rest. But if there is rapid swing and the tension of the thread in the pendulum could not resist the weight of the ball, then that suddenly breaks away before the pendulum attains the rest.

That is exactly what I was discussing with Geology Tiger in this thread:
http://sajha.com/sajha/html/index.cfm?threadid=94536


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