Sentences with phrase «pendulum clocks»

If you want something different than the typical round style, the pendulum clocks are a great alternative for creating truly personal and luxurious room decor.

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

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

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.

Air pump» thermometer, barometer and meteorological instruments, optical instruments, pendulum clock.

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.

Short - backed and symmetrical, they move with the unwavering grace of a pendulum clock.

Klaas Muller offers the oil on copper Perseus and Andromeda by the 16th - century German painter Hans Rottenhammer, while a marble and bronze pendulum clock from the Louis XIV period can be found at Benoît et Sébastien Tercelin de Joigny.

A charming display of accessories, including an antique pendulum clock and framed baby shoes, brings a personal touch to the space.

Tick your everyday time with this beautiful Aika pendulum clock from Covo.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The mood at the Arsenal camp is swinging faster than a pendulum on a clock.

Learn why the clock face is called a dial and why the clock runs the pendulum.

Neuroscientists at the University of Geneva rigged up a bed so it would sway gently from side to side every four seconds, considerably slower than the pendulum on a cuckoo clock.

The renovation of the 13.7 - tonne Great Bell includes the installation of a lift and repairs to the clock's hands, mechanism and pendulum.

Not include the weights and pendulum, the clock body measures 11.5» high, 8.75» wide, and 6.25» deep.

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 clock's mechanical parts left its accuracy at the mercy of shifting temperatures, pressures and even Earth's gravitational pull, since pendulums swing faster at lower altitudes and at Earth's poles.

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.

Whatever their use, all clocks need two basic components: a constant repetitive action (like a pendulum's swing or an atom's vibrations) and a way to mark time's progression.

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.

Similar to the way a grandfather clock's pendulum ticks off the seconds before signaling the gears to turn its hands, frequency combs count oscillations and convert them into useful electronic signals.

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.

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.»

The nine - foot - tall London clock uses a slowly rotating torsional pendulum, ticks once every 30 seconds, and tracks hours, sidereal and solar years, centuries, phases of the moon, and the zodiac — and happens to be hauntingly beautiful.

Classical physics says the pendulum can change direction only at the two end points, and generations of grandfather clocks have agreed.

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We are thus given the pendulum in Tick Tock Clock.

(23.7 cm) diameter Courtesy the artist and bitforms gallery, New York Amor Muñoz Mexican, born 1979 Rhythmic Manufacture, 2015/2017 Watercolor on paper, metronome, table, coverall, clock, and HD video with sound Performance at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 12 — 15, 2017 Dimensions variable Video production: 32K Productions Courtesy the artist Camille Norment American, born 1970 Lull, 2016 Dynamic sound installation with pendulum microphone Dimensions variable Courtesy the Camille Norment Studio O Grivo (Nelson Soares and Marcos Moreira Marcos) Active since 1990, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Cantilena, 2017 Kinetic sound installation (wood, bamboo, MDF, copper pipes, brass rods and sheets, steel rods, violin and guitar strings, nylon wires, iron sheets, galvanized steel sheets, brass paper, electrical wires, and electric motors) Overall dimensions variable San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase Susan Philipsz Scottish, born 1965 Night and Fog (Clarinet), 2016 Twelve - channel sound installation, 47 min.

The video is of my braid slowly swinging back and forth like a pendulum of a clock.

Consider how a pendulum on a clock works.

If you focus on statistics, i.e. the swing of the clock pendulum (left - right - left - right etc) you can not derive conclusions on the inherent mechanism....

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.

«The net result is kind of a neat oscillation, reminiscent of a clock pendulum or beating heart.»

I reused a cloche I got at the thrift store from one of those dome clocks (you know the ones... with the shiny brass clock and a little pendulum swinging..).