Sentences with phrase «long pendulums»

In Meyer's lab two long pendulums hang side by side from the ceiling, nine inches apart.

Drop the longer pendulum and, at the same time, have the assistant start the stopwatch.

• Is the period of the longer pendulum longer or shorter than the period of the shorter pendulum?

Not exact matches

There are long term uptrends and downtrends, but at a certain point the market pendulum will change direction.

These two diminishers are the main reason why the discipline takes so long, so that the best that can be hoped for in most cultures is a pendulum swing between moral laxity and moral strictness.

«The pendulum is swinging and there are more and more domestically trafficked girls and women, no longer just foreign individuals.

The old regulator clock mounted on the kitchen wall, a clock whose pendulum had frozen long ago, hinted that it was a place where time simply stood still. A place where old family traditions took center stage.

Obviously every club must have their fair share of suits in the seats for logical financial reasons but when the pendulum swings too far one way you run the risk of offending and / or alienating the real fan - base who have supported the organization over the long haul.

But the question is how long will it take the pendulum to swing back.

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).

The exact periods of your longer and shorter pendulums may be slightly less than 1.7 seconds and 1.2 seconds, respectively, because of friction and because their lengths were less than 70 cm and 35 cm (due to strings being used to tie to attachments).

How long does it take the shorter pendulum to swing back to its original position?

A pendulum that is twice as long as another pendulum does not simply have a period that is also twice as long.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Fitness activity trackers have come a long way since Leonardo da Vinci sketched a rudimentary gear - and - pendulum pedometer to track the treks of 15th century Roman soldiers.

Runners get plenty of endurance work during sport - specific preparation, but because runners desperately need strength, the majority of their core exercises should be done with heavier weight and lower reps. Core exercises such as pikes and pendulums can focus on building endurance through higher reps and longer duration.

It was already pretty crowded by the time we arrived so we didn't stay for too long, but we were able to see all the highlights including the jewel wall, the pendulum, moon exhibits, and the live model of our solar galaxy where we got to weigh ourselves on each planet!

1 gemstone chip silk crochet long necklace — pendulum set; Fluorite / Sodalite — diamond set; Red Jasper / Golden Quartz — open marquis set; Howlite / Tiger's Eye (please see the photos in the gallery below)

Other extras include audio commentaries on their respective films by The Abominable Dr. Phibes director Robert Fuest and Witchfinder General producer Philip Waddilove and co-star Ian Ogilvy; an hour - long interview with Price that was conducted in 1987; a rare prologue for The Pit and the Pendulum that makes no sense in the context of the film (is there also a long - lost epilogue that ties it all together?)

«This is certainly a swinging of a pendulum, but it is a pendulum that's been swinging for a very long period in one direction — which is...

But we should keep our long - term goals in mind and judge the leftward swing of the pendulum accordingly.

A brief skim through the history books of teacher training shows that the preference for university ‑ led versus school - led provision has swung back and forth like a pendulum, but artificial and unhelpful distinctions between different kinds of training provision should be forgotten — the reality is that SCITTs, HEIs, Teach First and School Direct providers have long worked together.

ESSA champions have «long argued» the law would «swing the pendulum of control back to the states and, by doing so, unleash the innovative potential of local leaders,» writes educator Sean Worley in The 74.

I'm gradually reducing how far the pendulum swings, on average, but it's taking a long time.

people will no longer be fussed about having «local» copies on their own storage, but this tech is still in its infancy and and it's possible that this is just another temporary swing in the fat - client / thin - client pendulum.

Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.

They include authors whether living or dead and from any nation, such as Chinua Achebe, with No Longer at Ease (Penguin Classics); Sarah Waters, with Affinity (Virago); Martin Amis, with Dead Babies (Vintage); Umberto Eco, with Foucault's Pendulum (Vintage); Margaret Atwood, with Surfacing (Virago); Jane Austen, with Pride and Prejudice (Wordsworth Classics); Dan Brown, with Angels & Demons (Transworld); Patricia Cornwell, with Body of Evidence (Sphere); and Stephenie Meyer, with Twilight: New Moon (Atom), among others.

He himself has observed up - close the shifting dynamics of society — as with his work on Pendulum — and has seen firsthand the rapid and long - term changes in the publishing industry and how content reaches today's varied audiences.

The longest - term bonds, which enjoyed the greatest gains while rates were falling, likewise suffered the greatest losses once the interest - rate pendulum began to swing in the other direction — losing 28.5 % in value for the year.

There's the economy, the rising debate over energy and climate legislation, the long - term nature of the projected warming, the flickers of natural climate variability, the pendulum - like nature of media focus, the inconsistent quality of media coverage, or...?

This result indicates, since the GMT record begun, the GMT behaved like a stable pendulum with the two GMT boundary lines that are 0.5 deg C apart as the end points of the pendulum's swings, and the long - term global warming trend line of 0.06 deg C per decade as the pendulum's neutral position.

I like to think of the climate as a metronome; the pivot at bottom of the pendulum is the short multidecadal time scales scientists measure and at the top the weight attached to the pendulum is the longer millenia time scale, as the pendulum is swinging back and forward, climate scientists take measurements from the pivot and try to predict what direction the pendulum is swinging, as the faster moving pivot is a short multidecadal time scale, this is considered the natural variability of weather.

As where Marcott et al went wrong as climate scientists, when they used paleoclimate data of long millenia time scales in natural variability, with the short decadal time scale (weather) in natural variability and claim to predict the future of where the pendulum of climatology will be in the future, when actually showing that they are confused, what they are representing as evidence of the future climate is in fact their total misunderstanding of climatology and the complex chaotic circumstances that influence the real world.

How can any climate scientist in all honesty measure the natural variability of weather and expect to accurately pinpoint where the pendulum will be at a precise time on a longer millenia time scale.

• «Early adopters were lonely then and they're lonely now» • «Never has so little been accomplished by so many for so long» But: • Virtual unanimity that pendulum will not swing back post-recession; and • The path is «thankfully» irreversible

It is probable that the dynamic here is a long term pattern of calibrating the pendulum, with judicial activism leading to counter-pressures on courts to back off.

Blockstream developer Rusty Russell believes Lightning's community pendulum will swing back towards greater decentralization in the long run, and that the barrier to entry is the chief reason.

But the pendulum may be swinging toward taking a longer term investment approach for the foreseeable future: