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  2. Pendulum (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    "Force" derivation of Figure 1. Force diagram of a simple gravity pendulum. Consider Figure 1 on the right, which shows the forces acting on a simple pendulum. Note that the path of the pendulum sweeps out an arc of a circle. The angle θ is measured in radians, and this is crucial for this formula.

  3. Kater's pendulum - Wikipedia

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    Gravimeter with variant of Repsold pendulum The large increase in gravity measurement accuracy made possible by Kater's pendulum established gravimetry as a regular part of geodesy . To be useful, it was necessary to find the exact location (latitude and longitude) of the 'station' where a gravity measurement was taken, so pendulum measurements ...

  4. Pendulum - Wikipedia

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    "Simple gravity pendulum" model assumes no friction or air resistance. A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. [1] When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

  5. Cavendish experiment - Wikipedia

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    The arm rotated until it reached an angle where the twisting force of the wire balanced the combined gravitational force of attraction between the large and small lead spheres. By measuring the angle of the rod and knowing the twisting force ( torque ) of the wire for a given angle, Cavendish was able to determine the force between the pairs of ...

  6. Elastic pendulum - Wikipedia

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    In physics and mathematics, in the area of dynamical systems, an elastic pendulum [1] [2] (also called spring pendulum [3] [4] or swinging spring) is a physical system where a piece of mass is connected to a spring so that the resulting motion contains elements of both a simple pendulum and a one-dimensional spring-mass system. [2]

  7. Wilberforce pendulum - Wikipedia

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    A Wilberforce pendulum can be designed by approximately equating the frequency of harmonic oscillations of the spring-mass oscillator f T, which is dependent on the spring constant k of the spring and the mass m of the system, and the frequency of the rotating oscillator f R, which is dependent on the moment of inertia I and the torsional ...

  8. Routhian mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Spherical pendulum: angles and velocities. Consider the spherical pendulum, a mass m (known as a "pendulum bob") attached to a rigid rod of length l of negligible mass, subject to a local gravitational field g. The system rotates with angular velocity dφ/dt which is not constant. The angle between the rod and vertical is θ and is not constant.

  9. List of physical quantities - Wikipedia

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    Electric charge: Q: The force per unit electric field strength coulomb (C = A⋅s) T I: extensive, conserved Electric charge density: ρ Q: Electric charge per unit volume C/m 3: L −3 T I: intensive Electrical conductance: G: Measure for how easily current flows through a material siemens (S = Ω −1) L −2 M −1 T 3 I 2: scalar Electrical ...