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The time of swing of a pendulum is T = 2π √ (l/g) where l is the length of the pendulum.

As T ∝√l (Time is directly proportional to the square root of l) then, the longer the pendulum, the greater is the period. Therefore longer pendulums have longer periods than shorter pendulums.

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