Synchronising Metronomes in a Spreadsheet

2019-12-27

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This is the paper: "Synchronization of Globally Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators: the Rich Behavior of the Kuramoto Model"

http://go.owu.edu/~physics/StudentResearch/2005/BryanDaniels/kuramoto_paper.pdf

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