Seven tales of the pendulum / Gregory L. Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011Edition: [1st edition]Description: xvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199589517
  • 0199589518
Subject(s):
Contents:
What is a pendulum? -- Pendulums measure the earth -- Pendulums keep time -- Pendulums measure fundamental forces -- Pendulums swing high -- Pendulums go chaotic -- Pendulums stick together -- Pendulums in the small -- Odds and the end.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QA862.P4 B35 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000049169

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is a pendulum? -- Pendulums measure the earth -- Pendulums keep time -- Pendulums measure fundamental forces -- Pendulums swing high -- Pendulums go chaotic -- Pendulums stick together -- Pendulums in the small -- Odds and the end.

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A history of pensulum science for the non physicist, told in seven "tales". Tale 2 (pages 62-87 deals with the pendulum as timekeeper). Index, glossary, bibliography. Illustrated

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