A basic pendulum is a mass at the end of a string that swings back and forth. It seems simple, and it appears in most introductory physics textbooks. But it's not a trivial problem to solve for the ...
IN NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 61, a speed governor for a chronograph is described, the invention of the Astronomer-Royal, in which a conical pendulum acts on a paddle moving in a viscous fluid, so as to ...