Sentence examples for beat of a pendulum from inspiring English sources

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

Mouton's ideas attracted interest at the time; Picard in his work Mesure de la Terre (1671) and Huygens in his work Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum (1673) both proposing that a standard unit of length be tied to the beat frequency of a pendulum.

Examples include the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, the swing of a pendulum, and the beat of a heart.

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

Altering the length of a pendulum is therefore a sensitive means of regulation.

"It goes back and forth; it's kind of a pendulum," Ms. Underwood said.

It's one more hint of a pendulum swing back toward naturalism in pop.

"It's terrifying to think that we're at another swing of a pendulum.

There's certainly something of a pendulum effect.

CD: It's symptomatic of a pendulum swing in the direction of founders in recent years.

In the pendulum case, the student measures the length of a pendulum and thereby comes to believe that it has length L. On the basis of this measurement and other truths she knows about pendulums, the student is able to calculate the period of the pendulum.