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127 - What is Calculus?

No Dumb Questions

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Acceleration - How to Measure the Pendulum

When you measure thependulum, you're measuring acceleration, right? Sure. Ok. Well, what i'm doing in my head is i'm trying to get from acceleration back to velocity and then all the way back to position. So here's t his a really interesting problem. Just make sure im with you on the terms. Acceleration being how quickly that mass gains momentum gains velocity. And you can go back and forth from all those and and that gets back to the thing i was describing earlier, the pendulum. This is my favorite example, so we'll go there.

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