 | 1820 - 646 pages
...readers a detailed ac-*• connt of the experiments made by Captain Kater, with a view to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. We have now to direct their attention to a more extended investigation of the same careful observer,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1807 - 464 pages
...ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 1 6-jIj- feet in the first second «f time ? , Ans. 39'1 1 inches.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 494 pages
...ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1 270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through 16^ feet in the first second of time ? Ans. 39-1 1 inches. By experiment... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1817 - 604 pages
...parts, and a certain ratio between the whole and these parts j.cvcraUy, is established. Let us take the length of a pendulum, vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, which is 39,126 inches. For the sake, however, of simplifying the illustration, let the length be supposed... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 408 pages
...in whole numbers. To explain our philosopher's intentions more fully, let us admit the supposition, that the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London is 39.2 inches ; the length of one vibra'ing 42 times in a minute amounts to 80 inches ; by the same... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 406 pages
...in whole numbers. To explain our philosopher's intentions more fully, let us admit the supposition, that the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London is 39.2 inches ; the length of one vibrating 42 times in a minute amounts to 80 inches; by the same... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1822 - 680 pages
...ear. What is the depth of the well ? Ans. 1270 feet nearly. QUEST. 47. It is proposed to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through l6Ty feetin the first second of time ? Ans. 39-11 inches. By experiment... | |
 | 1825 - 10 pages
...author of a variety of excellent papers, among which are, " An Account of Experiments for determining the length of a Pendulum Vibrating Seconds in the Latitude of London ;" " Description of a New Compensation Pendulum;" "Description of a very Sensible Hygrometer;" "On... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...but they may be so adjusted that the period of the oscillation shall be accurately the same in all. The length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, 51° 31.'1, in a vacuum at the level of the sea, is 39,13929 inches. Taking these common divisions... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1835 - 308 pages
...the inches in its length ? v'2(375)2=52 inches long, and 52 vibrations. It is ' proposed to determine the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds, in the latitude of London, where a heavy body falls through Iftf, feet in the first second of time ? 3.1416 circumference, the... | |
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It is determined, we find, as a certain fraction of the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. 
