Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 82
heir motion may not only bebetter observed, but it will beless modified by the resistanceof the air (48). The most convenient instru-ment of this kind is that inventedby Atwood at the end of thelast century, and represented infig. 53. It consists of a stoutpillar of wood, about 2| yardshigh, at the… … Fig. S3- -77] Atlvoods Machine. 65 tremities of a fine silk thread, which passes round the pulley ; a timepiece,H, fixed to the pillar, is regulated by a seconds pendulum, P, in the usualway ; that is to say, the oscillations of the pendulum are communicated to aratchet, whose two teeth, as seen in…
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