 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...and FLOWER. PENDULUM, in mechanic«, denotes any heavy body, so suspended as that it may vibrate or swing backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the force of gravity. The vibrations of a pendulum are called its oscillations. See OSCILLATION. A pendulum, therefore, is... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 pages
...modify its energy. A pendulum is a body, suspended by a small string, as •wire, Sec. and swinging backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the force of gravity. Each swing of a pendulum is called a vibration or oscillation. The vibrations of a long pendulum are... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 pages
...and modify its energy. A pendulum is a body, suspended by a small string, as wire, &c. and swinging backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the force of gravity. Each swing of .1 pendulum is called a vibration or oscillation. The vibrations of a long pendulum are... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pages
...on the same glass, or crystalline, but its vertex in the point of convergence, as at c. PENDULUM, iu Mechanics, any heavy body, so suspended as that it...highest point on the other side. The point round which tlic pendulum moves, or vibrates, is called its centre of motion, or point of suspension ; and a right... | |
 | James Smith - 1815 - 684 pages
...been said with regard to that particular. Of the Pendulum. A pendulum is any heavy body so suspended that it may swing backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the force of gravity. A body thus suspended necessarily describes an arc, in one half of which it descends, and ascends in... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 402 pages
...and FLOWER. PENDULUM, in mechanics, denotes «ny heavy body, so suspended as that it may vibrate or swing backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the force of gravity. The vibrations of a pendulum are called its oscillations. See OSCILLATIOH. A pendulum, therefore, is... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 406 pages
...and FLOWER. PENDULUM, in mechanics, denotes any heavy body, so suspended as that it may vibrate or swing backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the force of gravity. The vibrations of a pendulum are called its oscillations. See OSCILLATION. A pendulum, therefore, is... | |
 | John Nicholson - 1825 - 838 pages
...ponderous body, so suspended, that it may swing backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the mere force of gravity. These alternate ascents and descents...are called its oscillations, or vibrations ; each oscillation being the arc which the pendulum detcribes from the highest point on one side to the highest... | |
 | John Nicholson - 1825 - 822 pages
...as may be found most convenient." PENDULUMS. THE pendulum is a simple ponderous body, so suspended, that it may swing backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the mere force of gravity. These alternate ascents and descents of the pendulum are called its oscillations,... | |
 | John Nicholson (civil engineer.) - 1825 - 1008 pages
...as may be found most convenient" PENDULUMS. THE pendulum is a simple ponderous body, so suspended, that it may swing backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by tlie mere force of gravity. These alternate ascents and descents of the pendulum are called its oscillations,... | |
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PENDULUM, in mechanics, any heavy body, so suspended as that it may swing backwards and forwards, about some fixed point, by the force of gravity. These alternate ascents and descents of the pendulum are called its oscillations, or vibrations... 
