 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...pendulum consists of a ball, or any other solid, suspended by a metallic or wooden rod, the length of the pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to a point in the pendulum called tbe centre of oscillation^ which does not exactly coincide with the centre of... | |
 | John Imison - Art - 1822 - 528 pages
...pendulum consists of a ball, or any other figure, suspended by a metallic or wooden rod, the length of the pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to a point in the pendulum called the centre of oscillation, which does not exactly coincide with the centre of... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1852 - 600 pages
...pendulum consists of a ball, or any other figure, suspended by a metallic or wooden rod, the length of the pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to a point in the pendulum, called the centre of oscillation, which does not exactly coincide with the centre... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...? V (39.10153) X 60 = 375.1873, and 4/375.1873 = 7.2125, and 7.21252 = 52.02 inches. Ans. NOTE. — The length of a pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to the centre of oscillation. See CBSTRES OF OSCILLATION AND PERCUSSION. SCREW-CUTTING IN A LATHE. SCREWS... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1863 - 600 pages
...pendulum consists of a ball, or any other figure, suspended by a metallic or wooden rod, the length of the pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to a point in the pendulum, called the centre of oscillation, which does not exactly coincide with the centre... | |
 | John Charles Buckmaster - Mechanics - 1864 - 204 pages
...a pendulum to vibrate in any given time must vary with the latitude of the place. The length of the pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to a point called the centre of oscillation. 03 THE ELEMENTS OF HYDROSTATICS. CHAPTER I. HYDROSTATICS treat of... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - 1885 - 522 pages
...of the force of gravity. The number of vibrations varies as the square root of the force of gravity. The length of a pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to its center of oscillation. These two points are interchangeable. The center of percussion is coincident... | |
 | Charles Hanford Henderson, John Francis Woodhull - Physics - 1900 - 426 pages
...calculate the length (l) of an equivalent simple pendulum. This equivalent length for the compound pendulum is the distance from the point of suspension to a point called the " centre of oscillation." We have seen that the time of oscillation depends on the square... | |
 | 1908 - 504 pages
...accelerated upon its return, and when it reaches the earth again, it has the same velocity that it h;ul when it left the hand. The Pendulum. In its simplest...a pendulum consists of one complete beat one way. When it swings back and forth once, two vibrations take place. Law 1. When the arc swung through is... | |
 | 1910 - 528 pages
...earth again, it has the same velocity that it had when it left the hand. CHAPTER lX THE PENDULUM* ln its simplest practical form, the pendulum consists...a pendulum consists of one complete beat one way. When it swings back and forth once, two vibrations take place. Law 1. When the arc swung through is... | |
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For convenience, this may be called a simple pendulum, and any pendulum in which the weight is not so concentrated, is a compound pendulum. Strictly, however, a true simple pendulum is merely an ideal conception — it is a particle of matter suspended... 
