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What is the significance of the simple pendulum?
The simple pendulum can be used to determine the acceleration due to gravity.
How are 3 ways to write pendulum in a sentence?
The pendulum swings both ways. Pendulum exercises are used to increase your ROM after shoulder surgery.
A is used to keep time in a grandfather clock?
Pendulum
What is the purpose of a pendulum?
Pendulums have been used for thousands of years as a time keeping device in various civilizations. Assuming that it is only displaced by a small angle, a pendulum wall have a period of 2pi*√(L/g) where L is the length of the pendulum and g is the acceeleration due to gravity, normally 9.81m/s². One of the cool things about pendulums is that if one is made with a length of one meter, it will have a period of 2.00607 seconds, meaning it will take just slightly more than one second to swing from one side to another.
How does the foucault pendulum show time?
A Foucault pendulum is a pendulum with a large length which is free to oscillate in any vertical plane. At the equator, the plane of oscillation remains fixed relative to the earth. Elsewhere, the plane of oscillation rotates, at a speed that is related to the latitude of the location. In Paris, where Foucault's pendulum is located, the plane of the pendulum's oscillation moves at approx 11 degrees per hour. This movement can be used to tell the time.
How can pendulum be used to determine local gravitational acceleration?
Measure the length and the period
What instuments is used to measure an angle?
A protractor is used to measure angles.
Which instrument can be used to measure the time taken for the pendulum to make 20 oscillations?
A stopwatch could be used.
What term is used to describe the difference in duration of large and small arcs of a pendulum?
The term to describe the duration of arcs of a pendulum is called period. This is how long the pendulum takes to move through an entire cycle.
How could a pendulum be used to measure altitude?
It may be possible in theory but for all practical purposes... it can't
What is the pendulum used for?
the pendulum is used to tell time
What were Cleopatra's needle and Focault's pendulum used for?
Focault's Pendulum refers to a large pendulum which is used to demonstrate or measure the rotation of the Earth. Cleopatra's Needle can refer to any of three ancient Egyptian obelisks which were transported to London, Paris and New York and re-erected as monuments.
What are conditions used while calculating time period of simple pendulum?
The time period of a simple pendulum is calculated using the following conditions: Length of the pendulum: The longer the length of the pendulum, the longer it takes for one complete back-and-forth swing. Acceleration due to gravity: The time period is inversely proportional to the square root of the acceleration due to gravity. Higher gravity results in a shorter time period. Angle of displacement: The time period is slightly affected by the initial angle of displacement, but this effect becomes negligible for small angles.
How can gravity be measured?
Gravity can be measured many ways. You can drop an object and observe how it falls and determine the objects acceleration. With that in hand you can then calculate the force required, and measure gravity that way. You can use a scale, and determine the force acting upon the object placed on it to compress the springs a certain distance, or deflect it a certain distance (depending on the scale's design). A pendulum can be used to measure gravity. The period of a pendulum is directly influenced by the magnitude of the accelerating force (gravity) you can measure altitude with a sensitive pendulum. As gravity is a force, any method you would use to determine the force of one object exerting upon another would work to measure gravity.
Height of cathedral of santiago de compostela?
Our Physics class calculated that the height of the dome inside the cathedral is approximately 16m. We used the relationship between the period of a pendulum (incense thurible) and the length of the pendulum.
What is used to measure the period of a wave?
Seconds
What instuments are used in Lady Gaga's songs?
Synthesizer, piano, vocals.
