A huygens pendulum.We experimentally test the properties of the cycloidal pendulum. We use a model pendulum constructed according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the design originally developed by Huygens Huy·gens , Christiaan 1629-1695. Dutch physicist and astronomer who discovered Saturn's rings (1655), pioneered the use of pendulums in clocks (1657), and formulated Huygens' principle. Noun 1. . We test the accuracy with which our pendulum follows a cycloid cycloid /cy·cloid/ (si´kloid) characterized by alternating moods of elation and depression. . We test the tautochrone property of a cycloidal pendulum. We study the effects of air resistance on the period and the tautochrone property as compared to theoretical predictions in which air resistance is not taken into account. We compare the cycloidal pendulum with the simple pendulum simple pendulum n. See pendulum. Noun 1. simple pendulum - a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant length . |
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