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    A conical pendulum consists of a weight (or bob) fixed on the end of a string or rod suspended from a pivot. Its construction is similar to an ordinary...
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    pendulums Blackburn pendulum Conical pendulum Cycloidal pendulum Double pendulum Double inverted pendulum Doubochinski's pendulum Foucault pendulum Furuta...
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  • pendulum Conical pendulum Centrifugal pendulum absorber, torsional vibration reduction by using a pendulum principle For other types and uses of pendulums, see:...
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    mechanical-engineer, aeronaut, occasional writer and one of the most celebrated conical pendulum clock makers. In 1853, he established the Manufacture d’horlogerie...
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    which implies that its conjugate momentum is a constant of motion. The conical pendulum refers to the special solutions where θ ˙ = 0 {\displaystyle {\dot...
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    Harmonograph Conical pendulum Cycloidal pendulum Double pendulum Inverted pendulum Kapitza's pendulum Rayleigh–Lorentz pendulum Elastic pendulum Mathieu function...
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    following a suggestion from his business partner Matthew Boulton. It was a conical pendulum governor and one of the final series of innovations Watt had employed...
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    Clock (section Pendulum)
    development in accuracy occurred after 1656 with the invention of the pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens. A major stimulus to improving the accuracy...
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    Germain; Coullet, Pierre; Gilli, Jean-Marc (2006). "Robert Hooke's conical pendulum from the modern viewpoint of amplitude equations and its optical analogues"...
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  • need for automatic speed control, and James Watt's self-designed "conical pendulum" governor, a set of revolving steel balls attached to a vertical spindle...
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