Sentence examples for common pendulum from inspiring English sources

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).

If a common pendulum is free to swing in one direction and if the ground moves rapidly in the direction of freedom of the pendulum while the pendulum is motionless, the pendulum will tend to remain in place through inertia.

We can tap everyone's strength better when we get to more common ground, near the pendulum sweet spot.

A common example of a pendulum is the large swinging weight in a grandfather clock.

Huygens observed that the two clocks soon ran at a common rate, with the pendulums moving in opposition to each other.

The pendulums share a common pivot line, but move independently and are only coupled together through collisions.

A common technique is to hold the pendulum over a pregnant woman's stomach to identify the gender of the child.

This paper studies a system composed of two pendulums attached to a common base that is oscillated horizontally.

The investigation focuses on the precision required for the most common type of hinge used to create centrifugal pendulums, the bifilar hinge.

Timepieces which indicated minutes and seconds were occasionally made from this time on, but this was not common until the increase in accuracy made possible by the pendulum clock and, in watches, the spiral balance spring.

This differential accelerometer is placed on a pendulum, in such a way as to make the common center of mass coincident with the center of mass of the pendulum itself.