Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 66
t has been taken as the basis of the Englishsystem of weights and measures, and from the English wehave taken our own system. The pendulum hasbeen successfully em-ployed by M. Fou-cault, a French phy-sicist of our own day,to demonstrate thedaily rotation of ourglobe. The detailsof his experiment… … Fig. 39. What principle enables us to measure the force of gravity? How far does abody fall in one second? What in the length of a seconds pendulum in 2?ewYork ? Application to weights and measures? What application did Foucaultmake of the pendulum ? ( 5G.) What is a Metronome ? 64 POPULAR PHYSICS.…
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