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Definition of Physical pendulum

1. Noun. Pendulum consisting of an actual object allowed to rotate freely around a horizontal axis.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Physical Pendulum

Literary usage of Physical pendulum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"Practically, we employ for the physical pendulum a heavy body, suspended by an ... In the physical pendulum the rod has weight as well as the ball; ..."

2. A Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied Electricity by Edward Leamington Nichols (1894)
"In the equation for the physical pendulum given in experiment E2, K0 may be computed if T, M, and R be determined, g being known. ..."

3. College Physics by John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guther (1910)
"Compound or physical pendulum. Any body suspended so as to swing freely about an axis forms a compound or physical pendulum. In such a pendulum the mass of ..."

4. Text-book of Mechanics by jr Louis Adolphe Martin (1907)
"COMPOUND OR physical pendulum An important application of the principle of rotation is found in the motion of a heavy body rotating about a horizontal axis ..."

5. College Physics by John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guthe (1911)
"Compound or physical pendulum. Any body suspended so as to swing freely about an axis forms a compound or ..."

6. The Theory and Practice of Mechanics by Stephen Elmer Slocum (1913)
"physical pendulum. — By a physical pendulum is meant a solid body of any shape or size which is suspended from a horizontal axis, not passing through its ..."

7. The Outlines of Physics: An Elementary Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols (1897)
"(2) A physical pendulum consisting of a straight cylindrical rod or bar, ... Procedure: (a) Hang the simple pendulum and the physical pendulum side by side ..."

8. College Physics by John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guther (1911)
"Compound or physical pendulum. Any body suspended so as to swing freely about an axis forms a compound or physi- ..."

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