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... experiment . He fastened one end of a flexible cord to a nail driven into the wall and from the other he suspended a heavy ball . The set - up which he made is shown in Fig . 5 . Lifting the pendulum from M to A in such a way as to keep ...
... experiment . He fastened one end of a flexible cord to a nail driven into the wall and from the other he suspended a heavy ball . The set - up which he made is shown in Fig . 5 . Lifting the pendulum from M to A in such a way as to keep ...
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... experimental variable pendulum . that in each case the ball rose to the same level on the line AB , hence the ... experiment- ally by the use of pendula that the centre of gravity of a free body moving under the influence of the ...
... experimental variable pendulum . that in each case the ball rose to the same level on the line AB , hence the ... experiment- ally by the use of pendula that the centre of gravity of a free body moving under the influence of the ...
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... experiment . Naturally we are far , far better off today than even fifty years ago . Our society is less class - structured , the state pro- vides that we shall not go hungry and we have comforts for our bodies . In place of the Church ...
... experiment . Naturally we are far , far better off today than even fifty years ago . Our society is less class - structured , the state pro- vides that we shall not go hungry and we have comforts for our bodies . In place of the Church ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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