The period of a pendulum is a measure of the amount of time it takes to complete one full cycle and return to its starting position.
You can build a simple pendulum - one that has most of its mass concentrated in a small place, at the end of the pendulum. Measure the pendulum's length, and measure how long it takes to go back and forth. Use the formula for the period of a pendulum, solving for "g".
A stopwatch could be used.
The pendulum of a clock is the long weighted bar that swings back and forth in the case below the clock. It was discovered several hundred years ago that the time it takes for one swing of a particular pendulum is constant, no matter how big or small the swing is. It can, therefore, be used to measure time.
The pendulum of a clock is the long weighted bar that swings back and forth in the case below the clock. It was discovered several hundred years ago that the time it takes for one swing of a particular pendulum is constant, no matter how big or small the swing is. It can, therefore, be used to measure time.
The Pendulum.
The period of a pendulum is a measure of the amount of time it takes to complete one full cycle and return to its starting position.
The longer a pendulum is, the more time it takes a pendulum takes to complete a period of time. If a clock is regulated by a pendulum and it runs fast, you can make it run slower by making the pendulum longer. Likewise, if the clock runs slow, you can make your clock run faster by making the pendulum shorter. (What a pendulum actually does is measure the ratio between time and gravity at a particular location, but that is beyond the scope of this answer.)
t = 2*pi*sqrt(L/g) where L is the length of the pendulum and g is the force of gravity.
You can build a simple pendulum - one that has most of its mass concentrated in a small place, at the end of the pendulum. Measure the pendulum's length, and measure how long it takes to go back and forth. Use the formula for the period of a pendulum, solving for "g".
A stopwatch could be used.
Take a pendulum that is 10 meters off of the ground. As the Earth rotates, the pendulum will also rotate. Measure the time it takes for the pendulum to return to the exact spot. It equals 23 h 56 m 4 s.
The pendulum of a clock is the long weighted bar that swings back and forth in the case below the clock. It was discovered several hundred years ago that the time it takes for one swing of a particular pendulum is constant, no matter how big or small the swing is. It can, therefore, be used to measure time.
The pendulum of a clock is the long weighted bar that swings back and forth in the case below the clock. It was discovered several hundred years ago that the time it takes for one swing of a particular pendulum is constant, no matter how big or small the swing is. It can, therefore, be used to measure time.
A time period is a measure of a basic phenomenon : the passage of time. Time periods are independent of human beings or even of life of any form. A simple pendulum is a man-made device to make approximate measurements of time periods.
the pendulum is used to tell time
The longer the length of the pendulum, the longer the time taken for the pendulum to complete 1 oscillation.