 | 1820 - 646 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1807 - 464 pages
...ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 1 6-jIj- feet in the first second «f time ? , Ans. 39'1 1 inches.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 494 pages
...ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1 270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 16^ feet in the first second of time ? Ans. 39-1 1 inches. By experiment... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...perfection with that of sir George Shuckburg Evelyn. Again ; in the year 1814, the committee of the house of commons resolved, and, in 1815, the house itself enacted,...that the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in racuo at the level of the sea, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit, in latitude 51° 3 1' 8" 4'"... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...in 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... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...in 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... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 680 pages
...ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through l6Ty feetin the first second of time ? Ans. 39-11 inches. By experiment... | |
 | Biography - 1825 - 10 pages
...author of a variety of excellent papers, among which are, " An Account of Experiments for determining the length of a Pendulum Vibrating Seconds in the Latitude of London ;" " Description of a New Compensation Pendulum;" "Description of a very Sensible Hygrometer;" "On... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...but they may be so adjusted that the period of the oscillation shall be accurately the same in all. The length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, 51° 31.'1, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, is 39,13929 inches. Taking these common divisions... | |
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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. 
