Spontaneous Synchronization

By: Kelly Roden and Megan Mayhew

Cockatoohttp://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJOZp2ZftCw&feature=channel

http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/snowball-the-dancing-cockatoo/faeeae0b48d115b55653dd363ae442f8

Metronome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMVxVbCIPjg&feature=player_embedded

http://www.learner.org/courses/mathilluminated/interactives/metronome/

The Moon• All sorts of non-biological

systems can spontaneously synchronize, creating order where we might expect to see chaos. We can see this in the heavens, in the tidal locking of our moon (a case of two cycles, both an orbit and a rotation) becoming synchronized so that we always see the same side of the moon when we look from Earth.