Sentence examples for as a pendulum from inspiring English sources

In a cesium-based atomic clock, each cycle can be thought of as a pendulum swing.

But the system is nowhere near as efficient as a pendulum.

The brown body appears to be swaying back and forth as it is beaten, helpless as a pendulum.

Not much larger than a minivan, the ball is designed to act as a pendulum, offsetting up to 40percentt of the swaying in the tower's top floors.

The financier George Soros tells him that "the market" is wrongly seen as a pendulum, righting itself when swung to an extreme.

The idea of the past as a pendulum is not an argument against the possibility of progress — it's a warning against the belief that progress can easily and passively be made permanent.

Amazon's response was that it was "not as much of a pendulum as has been portrayed".

Within resonance, the angle θ librates, or oscillates, around a constant value as would a pendulum around its equilibrium position at the bottom of its swing.

In order to optimize the recovery of mechanical energy, the kinetic energy and the potential energy curves must be equal in amplitude and opposite in phase, as in a pendulum.

Under such circumstances, system (3.7) could be regarded as a pendulum-like system with state delay.

The generosity of veterans benefits is on an upswing in a pendulum arc as old as the republic.