absence of friction...no air resistance
A simple pendulum will definitely not swing continuously in air. The pendulum would lose energy to its surroundings in overcoming air resistance.
Because of the air resistance which causes the pendulum to gradually lose energy.
Two conditions required for cloud formation are cooling air to reach its dew point temperature and the presence of particles, such as dust, smoke, or salt, for water vapor to condense upon and form droplets.
Three conditions required for a thunderstorm to form are: moisture in the atmosphere, unstable air that can rise rapidly, and a lifting mechanism such as a cold front or warm air rising from the ground.
* Rising Unstable air * moisture * Air cools with an increasing altitude
ground temperature below freezing, and air temperature slightly above freezing.
Probably the movement on a swing can be approximated by assuming that the magnitude of each swing will be a certain percentage of the previous swing (because of lost energy).
The simile in the poem "Boy on a Swing" compares the boy's swing to a "giant bird on the wing" to convey the image of the swing soaring through the air as if it were a bird in flight.
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Friction of air normally called drag (or air resistance), it could be argued that gravity also takes effect in stopping the swing, if it was only drag the swing could stop ten feet in the air, and if it was just gravity it wouldn't stop due to the laws of mass and momentum. The drag reduces the momentum, therefore making the swing slow to a stop and gravity keeps it as close to the ground as possible.
the swing is produced by the movement of the wind and completely depends upon the movement of the wrists of the bowlers.
Damping is why the pendulum cannot swing continuously in air. If the suspension system of the pendulum was completely friction free (which none of them are, though it isn't much), the thing that would "work against" the swinging pendulum is the air. That air (a fluid) that it must move through doesn't move out of the way by itself. Air may not look or feel like much, but to shear through it like the pendulum does "costs" the pendulum. The friction of the air atoms and molecules (we call it "drag" when we talk about aerodynamics) is enough to continuously strip energy from the pendulum and eventually stop it completely. Picture a large ball weighing several hundred pounds suspended on a long steel cable. Start that swinging and it will swing for a long time. But it will eventually stop. It just takes a longer period for the drag of the air to drain all the kinetic energy from the moving ball because there is so much of it there when that ball is in motion. A little fishing weight on a piece of fishing line will not swing anywhere nearly as long. Consider how much energy it would take to set the two different pendulums in motion. That's how much energy the aerodynamic drag will have to "suck out" of the pendulum to stop it. And even though the big ball is larger in cross sectional area (and will have more drag), it has many times the mass advantage over the fishing weight. That's what makes it take longer to stop - it has a lot more kinetic energy in it.