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Pulse and pendulum According to his first biographer Viviani, Galileo experimented with synchronizing two clocks -- the human pulse, and a pendulum -- in his student days at Pisa. The resulting invention, the "pulsilogium", represented the pulse rate as the length of the pendulum. Try making a pulsilogium: adjust the length of a pendulum so that its rate of swinging agrees with your own pulse. Mark the length. Then adjust the same pendulum for your lab partner's pulse -- is there a detectable difference in pulse rate? 2. Pendulum length and frequency It would be good to know what pendulum length means as a frequency (or pulse rate). http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/mpeterso/galileo/time2.htm

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What do you use to measure your pulse?

In order to measure your pulse you may use a watch or clock with a second hand. Make a note of the rate of the pulse, which is the number of beats per minute. Check the strength of the pulse to see if it is strong or weak and if the rhythm is regular or irregular.If you don't have a watch or a clock around, the Cleveland Clinic Health System recommends counting the beats you feel for 15 seconds and multiplying this by four to get your heart rate per minute: Check your pulse: _______________ (beats in 15 seconds) x 4 = ________________(your pulse)[1] You can count beats for 30 seconds and multiply by 2.


When you are counting pulse beats are you counting heartbeats?

Yes, your pulse is your heartbeat rate.


What is the Formula for simple interest rate?

The answer for rate in simple interest is =rate= simple interest\principle*time


What is the dependent variable in an experiment to determine whether drinking caffeinated soda increases pulse rate?

The pulse rate, since it's dependent on the quantity of caffeine, which is the changeable, independent variable.


Are pulse rates ratio or ordinal?

Pulse rates are typically considered ratio measurements. This is because they have a true zero point (a pulse rate of zero indicates no heartbeat) and allow for meaningful comparisons between values, such as saying one person has a pulse rate twice as high as another. Additionally, pulse rates can be mathematically manipulated, which is characteristic of ratio data.

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What are the medical applications of a simple pendulum?

A simple pendulum can be used in medical applications to measure a patient's pulse rate. By counting the number of swings of the pendulum in a given time period, a healthcare provider can determine the patient's heart rate. This can be a simple and effective way to monitor a patient's vital signs in certain situations.


Why when we speed up our heart pulse rate increase?

The pulse is a measure of the heart rate.


What does the pulse measure?

The number of times your heart beats in a minute, the heart rate.


Why do you measure pulse rate?

because they care


Why do you measure pulse?

To determine the subject's heart rate.


What is pulse rate a measure of?

22It's a measure of how many times your heart beats in a minute.


Is it true or false that the faster your heartbeats the slower your pulse will be?

That is false. Your pulse is a measure of your heart rate. The faster your heart beats, the higher (faster) your pulse will be.


What do the doctors use to measure a persons pulse rate?

i don't know sorry!


Does the pulse measure?

The number of times your heart beats in a minute, the heart rate.


Why don't you get the same result each time you measure your resting pulse rate?

because each time your pulse rate may increase or decrease it depends on your movment


Is pulse rate part of the circulatory system?

The pulse rate is a count of the hearts beats per minute, so the pulse rate itself isn't part of the circulatory system, but instead is a method used to quantify (measure) the strength and consistency of the circulatory system.


Can you have arithmia when your pulse rate is high?

Why do you have your pulse rate taken? Why do you have your pulse rate taken?