When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position. When …

Dec 16, 2025 · A special reversible compound pendulum called Kater’s pendulum is designed to measure the value of g, the acceleration of gravity. Another type is the Schuler pendulum.

Mar 16, 2025 · A physical pendulum is any object whose oscillations are similar to those of the simple pendulum, but cannot be modeled as a point mass on a string, and the mass …

May 24, 2025 · The pendulum is more than a swinging weight—it is a lens through which we understand time, gravity, motion, and even chaos. It embodies the transition from classical …

A pendulum is a mass suspended from a pivot point that is free to swing back and forth. Because the motion is oscillatory (a fancy way to say back and forth) and periodic (repeating with a …

Play with one or two pendulums and discover how the period of a simple pendulum depends on the length of the string, the mass of the pendulum bob, and the amplitude of the swing.

For small amplitudes, the period of such a pendulum can be approximated by: (Enter data for two of the variables and then click on the active text for the third variable to calculate it.) Note that …