Sentence examples for a pendulum or a from inspiring English sources

The second notion is that of deterministic motion, as that of a pendulum or a planet, which has been accepted since the time of Isaac Newton as exemplifying the success of science in rendering predictable that which is initially complex.

Dr. Borukhova had just testified that she and her husband were standing shoulder to shoulder, facing the same direction, and swinging their daughter back and forth as if she were on a pendulum or a playground swing, her mother holding her upper body and her father her legs.

Yet somewhere inside the plastic box of each one still lurks a pendulum, or more precisely, a spring-loaded swing arm with a weight at one end.

Watches made with an escapement (a device typically a pendulum or wheel that drives the timekeeping element in a watch, and makes it tick) are renowned for their efficiency and shock-resistance.

We consider the oscillations of a rotating pendulum or its analogy of a bead on a rotating, vertical, circular wire as a model example of a non-linear system with a periodic restoring force.

Is this just the predictable swing of the pendulum or a new passion for order in an ever more chaotic world?

The ponytail is modeled as a compound pendulum or a multi-bar pendulum with 2, 3, or 5 rigid bars.

Is this a swing of the pendulum or a shift in the structure?

This study designed a well-weighted pendulum to harvest energy from a rotating wheel, which consisted of a pendulum and one or more weights.

Dowsing, in occultism, use of a forked piece of hazel, rowan, or willow wood or of a Y-shaped metal rod or of a pendulum suspended by a nylon or silk thread, in an attempt to detect such hidden substances as water, minerals, treasure, archaeological remains, and even dead bodies.

The simplest type is a common pendulum in which a heavy mass is suspended by a wire or rod from a fixed point (as in a clock).