Sentence examples for a pendulum at from inspiring English sources

Although the suspended sampling bottle was swinging like a pendulum at an amplitude of a few meters, it was safely caught by hand.

While voter preferences don't move back and forth like a pendulum at the end of a campaign, polling numbers do.

An experiment in 2005 undertook a variation of the 1774 work: instead of computing local differences in the zenith, the experiment made a very accurate comparison of the period of a pendulum at the top and bottom of Schiehallion.

He suggested giving the metre the same length as that of a pendulum swinging at the rate of one beat per second.

Pipes were first impacted in a pendulum accelerator at varying velocities before they were pulled straight in a tension machine.

For 5-TET can be regarded as a rigid body during the tipping motion, the system was converted to an inverted pendulum at a pivot joint on the ground, as Figure 9 shown.

The inventor of the TruFirm is Matt Pringle, senior research engineer at the U.S.G.A., who also came up with the idea of testing the legality of a driver by swinging a weighted pendulum at the club face and measuring how long it lingers there before rebounding.

To replicate it you'll need a large pendulum, at least 16 feet long with a weight over 25 pounds, to minimize outside variables like wind or friction.

Through experimentation, Richer discovered that the beat of a pendulum is slower at Cayenne than at Paris, which is at a different latitude.

The rate of rotation of a Foucault pendulum at any given point is, in fact, numerically equal to the component of the Earth's rate of rotation perpendicular to the Earth's surface at that point.

Because the Earth rotates once a sidereal day, or 360° approximately every 24 hours, its rate of rotation may be expressed as 15° per hour, which corresponds to the rate of rotation of a Foucault pendulum at the North or South Pole.