Seven tales of the pendulum / Gregory L. Baker.
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TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011Edition: [1st edition]Description: xvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780199589517
- 0199589518
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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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