Sentence examples for a pendulum at the from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In this paper we consider an ultra-flexible inverted pendulum on a cart and propose a new nonlinear energy shaping controller to keep the pendulum at the upward position with the cart stopped at a desired location.

The controller consists of a general regression neural network (GRNN) feedback control, which stabilizes the inverted pendulum in a region around the upright position, and a PID feedback control, which keeps the pendulum at the upright position.

This involved swinging the same pendulum at the top and bottom of a deep mine to measure the change in the strength of gravity between the top and bottom of the mine.

Simulation results show that the controller can keep the inverted pendulum at the upright position while nearly minimizing an energy-related cost function and keeping the foot-link stationary on the ground.

Also that year, Gaskill directed Simpson's next major play, probably his best, One Way Pendulum, at the Royal Court.