Definitions for compound pendulum
com·pound pen·du·lum

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1. physical pendulum, compound pendulumnoun

   pendulum consisting of an actual object allowed to rotate freely around a horizontal axis

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1. compound pendulum

   A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. 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. When released, the restoring force acting on the pendulum's mass causes it to oscillate about the equilibrium position, swinging back and forth. The time for one complete cycle, a left swing and a right swing, is called the period. The period depends on the length of the pendulum and also to a slight degree on the amplitude, the width of the pendulum's swing. From the first scientific investigations of the pendulum around 1602 by Galileo Galilei, the regular motion of pendulums was used for timekeeping and was the world's most accurate timekeeping technology until the 1930s. The pendulum clock invented by Christiaan Huygens in 1658 became the world's standard timekeeper, used in homes and offices for 270 years, and achieved accuracy of about one second per year before it was superseded as a time standard by the quartz clock in the 1930s. Pendulums are also used in scientific instruments such as accelerometers and seismometers. Historically they were used as gravimeters to measure the acceleration of gravity in geo-physical surveys, and even as a standard of length. The word pendulum is new Latin, from the Latin pendulus, meaning hanging.

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1. compound pendulum

   A compound pendulum, also known as a physical pendulum, is a pendulum that consists of an extended body of any shape that swings back and forth around a horizontal axis. The compound pendulum does not restrict the motion to be along a plane, and its motion can have both translational and rotational characteristics. Instead of being suspended from a fixed point, the body oscillates with a fixed pivot applying force from above, and the exact center of mass can often be located to calculate precise measurements.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of compound pendulum in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of compound pendulum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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