
30 A Systems Perspective on Financial Systems
Figure 2.7 Patterns observed in Hide’s dishpan experiment.
Figure 2.7(c), a chain of identical eddy motions would appear. As they travel along,
they would alter their shapes in unison in a regular periodic fashion, and after many
rotations of the turntable, they would regain their original shape and then repeat the
cycle. Fultz and his colleagues (1959) conducted another dishpan experiment without
the inner cylinder, producing similar results.
Now, if we fit Fultz’s dishpan experiment to the discussion above by imagining
both the top and the bottom of each yoyo as a spinning dish of fluids, then the patterns ...