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  2. Pendulum - Wikipedia

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    "Simple gravity pendulum" model assumes no friction or air resistance. A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. [1] When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

  3. Pendulum (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    A pendulum is a body suspended from a fixed support such that it freely swings back and forth under the influence of gravity. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back towards the equilibrium position.

  4. Center of percussion - Wikipedia

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    The same point is called the center of oscillation for the object suspended from the pivot as a pendulum, meaning that a simple pendulum with all its mass concentrated at that point will have the same period of oscillation as the compound pendulum.

  5. Conical pendulum - Wikipedia

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    Monumental conical pendulum clock by Farcot, 1878. A conical pendulum consists of a weight (or bob) fixed on the end of a string or rod suspended from a pivot.Its construction is similar to an ordinary pendulum; however, instead of swinging back and forth along a circular arc, the bob of a conical pendulum moves at a constant speed in a circle or ellipse with the string (or rod) tracing out a ...

  6. Keel effect - Wikipedia

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    Keel effect is also called pendulum effect because a lower center of gravity increases the effect of sideways forces (above the center of gravity) in producing a rolling moment. This is because the moment arm is longer, not because of gravitational forces. A low center of gravity is like a pendulum.

  7. Restoring force - Wikipedia

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    When a pendulum is not swinging all the forces acting on it are in equilibrium. The force due to gravity and the mass of the object at the end of the pendulum is equal to the tension in the string holding the object up. When a pendulum is put in motion, the place of equilibrium is at the bottom of the swing, the location where the pendulum rests.

  8. 1st female airman awarded Silver Star for shootdown of ...

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    The Air Force has awarded the Silver Star to a female airman for the first time following her role in the shootdown of more than 80 Iranian drones that were part of Iran's large missile and drone ...

  9. Kater's pendulum - Wikipedia

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    atmospheric pressure, which reduced the effective mass of the pendulum by the buoyancy of the displaced air, increasing the period; altitude, which reduced the gravitational force with distance from the center of the Earth. Gravity measurements are always referenced to sea level. He gave his result as the length of the seconds pendulum. After ...