But then the process begins to reverse, and soon the first pendulum is swinging again while the second one is stopped. The pendulums repeatedly transfer the motion back and forth between them this way as long as they continue to swing. Experiment with different wire lengths and with different string tensions to produce more strongly or weakly interdependent coupled pendulums. Every pendulum has a natural or resonant frequency , which is the number of times the pendulum swings back and forth per second. The resonant frequency depends on the pendulum's length.
Longer pendulums have lower frequencies.
Every time the first pendulum swings, it pulls on the connecting string and gives the second pendulum a small tug. Since the two pendulums have the same length, the pulls of the first pendulum on the second occur exactly at the natural frequency of the second pendulum, so the second pendulum begins to swing too. The second pendulum swings slightly out of phase with the first one. That is, when the first pendulum is at the height of its swing, the second pendulum is still somewhere in the middle of its swing. As soon as the second pendulum starts to swing, it starts pulling back on the first pendulum.