| 1824 - 428 pages
...thought, have altered the form of so delicate an edge in a slight degree, and thus have virtually lessened the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation *. " As the whole pendulum had acquired a coating of oxide, with the exception of the tail-piece, which... | |
| 1824 - 432 pages
...thought, have altered the form of so delicate an edge in a slight degree, and thus have virtually lessened the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation *. " As the whole pendulum had acquired a coating of oxide, with the exception of the tail-piece, which... | |
| John Timbs - 1831 - 302 pages
...; the uncertainty as to the true level of the sea ; the extreme difficulty of measuring accurately the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation, and even of finding that centre ; also the variety of terrestrial attraction, from which cause the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1831 - 324 pages
...atmosphere ; the uncertainty as to the true level of the sea; the extreme difficulty of measuring accurately the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation, and even of finding that centre ; also the variety of terrestrial attraction, from which cause the... | |
| 1831 - 472 pages
...; the uncertainty as to th« true level of the sea ; the extreme difficulty of measuring accurately the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation, and even of finding that centre ; also the variety of terrestrial attraction, from which cause the... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 314 pages
...atmosphere ; the uncertainty as to the true level of the sea; the extreme difficulty of measuring accurately the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation, and even of finding that centre ; also the variety of terrestrial attraction, from which cause the... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pages
...atmosphere ; the uncertainty as to the true level of the sea; the extreme difficulty of measuring accurately the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation, and even of finding that centre ; also the variety of terrestrial attraction, from which cause the... | |
| 1836 - 496 pages
...atmosphere ; the uncertainty as to the true level of the sea; the extreme difficulty of measunng accurately the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation, and even of finding Uiat centre. Besides these, another source of eirour has been lately discovered,... | |
| 1843 - 488 pages
...; the uncertainty as to the true level of the sea ; the extreme difficulty of measuring accurately the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation, and even of finding that centre. Besides these, another source of errour has been lately discovered,... | |
| 1855 - 248 pages
...thread or wire. He states that for a pendulum oscillating half-seconds, he found by calculation that the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of oscillation was exactly 9^ inches, Rhinland measure. (Letter Booh of the Royal Society, vol. ip 225.) The letter... | |
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