 | 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... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Geometry - 1826 - 682 pages
...before the sound of the fall at the bottom reached'the ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1%70 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine the length of u pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 16T"5 feet... | |
 | Robert Brunton - Mechanical engineering - 1828 - 222 pages
...will be the same number as the inches in its length? .\/3752 = 52 inches long, and 52 vibrations.* It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum...latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 16yV feet in the first second of time? * For y' * '• V 39 | ; : 60 : x or */ x X x = 375 y' * = 375... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Measurement - 1833 - 310 pages
...will be the same number as the inches in its length ? N/2(375)a=52 inches long, and 52 vibrations. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum...latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 16T]3 feet in the first second of time ? 3.1416 circumference, the diameter being 1. ") 16T'5 feet=193... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 662 pages
...fall at the bottom reached the ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 42. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum...latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 16T'j feet in the first second of time? Ans. 39-11 inches. By experiment this length is found to be... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Measurement - 1835 - 308 pages
...wfll be the same number as the inches in its length ? v'2(375)2=52 inches long, and 52 vibrations. It is ' proposed to determine the length of a pendulum...latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through Iftf, feet in the first second of time ? 3.1416 circumference, the diameter being 1. > 16T!j feet=193... | |
 | James Thomson (LL.D.) - Arithmetic - 1837 - 296 pages
...to be the origin of all other measures of length. The thirty-siith part of this yard is an inch; and the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London is found to be 39-139:-. such inches; that is, according to the notation of decimal fractions, 39 inches... | |
 | W. H. CRANK - Arithmetic - 1843 - 340 pages
...32-197 inches. To find the time of one vibration of any pendulum. I. RULE. — As the square root of the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London is to the square root of the length of the given pendulum, so is 1 to the time of one vibration. Ex.... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1880 - 436 pages
...Endeavors to find a Standard of Length. 1798, page 185, &c. Kater's Account of Experiments for determining the Length of a Pendulum vibrating Seconds in the Latitude of London. 1818, page 83, &c. Kateron the Length of the French Metre as compared with Shuckburgh's Scale, 0- 39.4... | |
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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. 
