Kishore forgot that he has the next class on the 5th floor of his college, and he started running to the classroom. He glanced at his watch, and found that he was already late by 5 minutes. Kishore was really irritated with the course of things, nothing seems to go right at the moment. "Why is this happening with me", he was wondering.
He silently walked into the classroom and settled down at the last row. He watched the Blackboard, and found it cluttered with lot of trigonometric equations. Among the equations, he found the lesson topic for the day, "Simple Harmonic Motion (S.H.M)". After 40 minutes of fighting with equations and sin-cos functions, professor Bandopadhyay, started summarizing the lesson. Kishore woke up from his siesta, and tried to concentrate. Proffesor Bandopadhyay's lecture is generally boring, but the summary was usually good and concise.
Bandopadhyay spoke, "So, as you see, even though the motion of the pendulum seems to-and fro in a linear space, in reality, the to and fro motion is the projection of a point rotating on a circle with constant speed. In other words, even though the point is rotating in a circle with constant speed, if you view it from a particular point of view, the point is oscillating !! Amazing isnt it ?? "
The class dispersed, but Kishore was still there in the last row, scribbling his learnings into his diary.
He silently walked into the classroom and settled down at the last row. He watched the Blackboard, and found it cluttered with lot of trigonometric equations. Among the equations, he found the lesson topic for the day, "Simple Harmonic Motion (S.H.M)". After 40 minutes of fighting with equations and sin-cos functions, professor Bandopadhyay, started summarizing the lesson. Kishore woke up from his siesta, and tried to concentrate. Proffesor Bandopadhyay's lecture is generally boring, but the summary was usually good and concise.
Bandopadhyay spoke, "So, as you see, even though the motion of the pendulum seems to-and fro in a linear space, in reality, the to and fro motion is the projection of a point rotating on a circle with constant speed. In other words, even though the point is rotating in a circle with constant speed, if you view it from a particular point of view, the point is oscillating !! Amazing isnt it ?? "
The class dispersed, but Kishore was still there in the last row, scribbling his learnings into his diary.
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