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" It is determined, we find, as a certain fraction of the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. "
A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the ... - Page 263
by Charles Hutton - 1811
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 34

1820 - 646 pages
...laid before our readers a detailed ac-*• connt of the experiments made by Captain Kater, with a view to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. We have now to direct their attention to a more extended investigation of the same careful observer,...
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A Course of Mathematics in Two Volumes for the Use of Academies as Well as ...

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1807 - 464 pages
...before the sound of the fall at the bottom reached the ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine...latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 1 6-jIj- feet in the first second «f time ? , Ans. 39'1 1 inches. By experiment this length is found...
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A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1812 - 624 pages
...before the sound of the fall at the bottom reached the car. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine...latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 16 1\, feet in the first second of time ? Ans. 39-1 1 inches. By experiment this length is found to be...
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A Course of Mathematics: In Two Volumes : for the Use of Academies ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1816 - 618 pages
...before the sound of the fall at the bottom reached the ear. What is the depth of the well > Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine...through 16-^ feet in the first second of time ? Ans. 39 1 1 inches. By experiment this length is found to be 39-J inches. QUEST. 48QUEST. 48. What is the...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 10

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1817 - 604 pages
...parts, and a certain ratio between the whole and these parts j.cvcraUy, is established. Let us take the length of a pendulum, vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, which is 39,126 inches. For the sake, however, of simplifying the illustration, let the length be supposed...
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A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies, as Well as ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - Arithmetic - 1818 - 652 pages
...the fall at the bottom reached the ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QI*ST. 47. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum...latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through l G ,'., feet in the first second eftime ? Ans. 39-1 1 inches. By experiment this length is found to...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 7

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...whole numbers. To explain our philosopher's intentions more fully, let us admit the supposition, that the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London is 39.2 inches ; the length of one vibra'ing 42 times in a minute amounts to 80 inches ; by the same...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 7

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...whole numbers. To explain our philosopher's intentions more fully, let us admit the supposition, that the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London is 39.2 inches ; the length of one vibrating 42 times in a minute amounts to 80 inches; by the same...
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Report Upon Weights and Measures, Issues 1-7

United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...1814, the committee of the house of commons resolved, and, in 1815, the house itself enacted, that the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, had been ascertained to be 39.13047 inches of Bird's parliamentary standard yard. In the year 1818,...
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A Course of Mathematics for the Use of Academies, as Well as Private Tuition

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 680 pages
...before the sound of the fall at the bottpm reached the ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine...latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through l6Ty feetin the first second of time ? Ans. 39-11 inches. By experiment this length is found to be...
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