Sentences with phrase «in pendulum clocks»

This synchronization phenomenon is also evident in pendulum clocks placed near each other, and even in the flashing of fireflies.

Not exact matches

From that moment on, weight - driven pendulum clocks struck the hour at the same intervals, whether in winter or summer, spring or fall, day or night.

These movements are unpredictable and hence not easily susceptible to being represented in terms of a neat rhythmic model like the swinging of a clock pendulum.

In my third eye, a vision of an old mahogany grandfather clock with a swinging pendulum and hand - painted Roman numerals on the dial.

The refrigerator - size device, shown here and built in 2000, measures the frequency at which mercury ions oscillate between a higher and lower energy state, then uses that alternation to keep time — similar to a pendulum in a grandfather clock.

The timekeeping resonator at the heart of the Swiss - made Tissot T - Touch, the functional equivalent of a clock pendulum, is a single crystal of quartz, an eighth of an inch long and housed in an evacuated cylinder (black square, at top right of chip).

We see pendulums in other areas of our lives as well, such as in grandfather (also known as longcase) clocks.

By constantly tuning the laser to drive that aluminum transition, an interaction that only occurs in a tiny window near 1.121 petahertz (1.121 quadrillion cycles per second), the laser's frequency can be stabilized to an exquisitely sensitive degree, allowing it to act as the clock's pendulum.

He based his conclusion partly on the observation, by Frenchman Jean Richer in 1672, that pendulum clocks moved more slowly at the equator.

Much as a pendulum in a grandfather clock requires gears to record its swings and slowly turn the clock's hands, an optical atomic clock uses an optical frequency comb to count the oscillations of light and convert them into a useful electronic signal.

«If you consider the individual clocks as pendulums, then entangling the different clock causes the different pendulums to swing perfectly in unison.»

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It tries to be in certain sequences, notably those featuring Lumière the candelabra (voiced by Ewan McGregor), Cogsworth the pendulum clock (Ian McKellen), and Garderobe the wardrobe (Audra McDonald)-- all of whom are basically tactile, live - action animated characters.

We are thus given the pendulum in Tick Tock Clock.

One of them is connected to a mechanism which regulates mechanical energy delivered to the pendulum depending on the position of the pendulum — an escapement mechanism in a grandfather clock.