Sentences with phrase «pendulum theory»

Pendulum theory is a handy way to label the past, and it gives you a sense of how stock prices behave.

The buy low, sell high theory also has a physics counterpart, and it's called the «pendulum theory».

Not exact matches

Gradually the pendulum swing from theory to theory has become less wild, and a small body of reliable results has emerged.

Celebrated for his pendulum experiment in 1851, Foucault also produced decisive evidence against the particle theory of light, invented the gyroscope, perfected the reflecting telescope and measured the sun's distance

Modern physics began with a sweeping unification: in 1687 Isaac Newton showed that the existing jumble of disparate theories describing everything from planetary motion to tides to pendulums were all aspects of a universal law of gravitation.

But he also wrote for a more general audience, particularly literary novels such as «Foucault's Pendulum» (1988), about three workers at a small publishing house who hatch their own conspiracy theory, and «The Name of the Rose,» a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the 14th century.

Now, if the defenders of the Copernican theory had known to build a Foucault pendulum they could have seen the effect of rotation in a relatively small system.