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  2. Pendulum (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    The animations below depict the motion of a simple (frictionless) pendulum with increasing amounts of initial displacement of the bob, or equivalently increasing initial velocity. The small graph above each pendulum is the corresponding phase plane diagram; the horizontal axis is displacement and the vertical axis is velocity. With a large ...

  3. 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.

  4. Spherical pendulum - Wikipedia

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    Spherical pendulum: angles and velocities. In physics, a spherical pendulum is a higher dimensional analogue of the pendulum. It consists of a mass m moving without friction on the surface of a sphere. The only forces acting on the mass are the reaction from the sphere and gravity.

  5. Foucault pendulum - Wikipedia

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    The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area is monitored over an extended period of time, its plane of oscillation appears to change ...

  6. Elastic pendulum - Wikipedia

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    In physics and mathematics, in the area of dynamical systems, an elastic pendulum [1] [2] (also called spring pendulum [3] [4] or swinging spring) is a physical system where a piece of mass is connected to a spring so that the resulting motion contains elements of both a simple pendulum and a one-dimensional spring-mass system. [2]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Center of percussion - Wikipedia

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    For any point P a distance on the opposite side of the CM from the point of impact, the change in velocity of point P is: d v n e t = d v c m − p d ω . {\displaystyle dv_{net}=dv_{cm}-pd\omega .} Hence, the acceleration at P due to the impulsive blow is:

  9. Tautochrone curve - Wikipedia

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    In the tautochrone problem, if the particle's position is parametrized by the arclength s(t) from the lowest point, the kinetic energy is then proportional to ˙, and the potential energy is proportional to the height h(s). One way the curve in the tautochrone problem can be an isochrone is if the Lagrangian is mathematically equivalent to a ...