Pendulum (Noun)
Meaning
An apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- Galileo timed a large iron ball with increasingly more rigid bronze peg supporting holes such was connected overhead against these low narrow posts forming an upside pendulum in several free-swinging ways as pendulum swing experiments.
- While swinging an ordinary timekeeping pendulum back and forth exhibits varying speeds to see speeds where the fastest are at the lowest angle.
- Dutch scientist and mathematician Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock and also discovered that of independent pairs long small lead-shank pendulums timed in exact and isochronous and phase-matching synchronization.
- Historian of Science was arguing the swinging motion of a pendulum itself was part of Robert Hooke's explanation of a mysterious system of "repulsion" connected to large mass scale at its center.
- He compared the motion of the planets to a freely swinging earthward-discharging pendulum as gravity affects his example's assumed orbit.