Re: About Gravity and Inertia

On 18 Oct 2005 "Sue..." <suzysideshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Joe Fischer wrote:
>> On 18 Oct 2005 <suzysewnshow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >Accelerometers are not clocks.
>>
>> Oh, but they are, at low speeds, in fact
>> a pendulum clock makes a very good accelerometer.
>
>And candles are clocks at the right temperature.
>Perhaps that was the road to take.

If you knew anything about physics, you would
not have sent such a little girl clueless response.

>> Pendelum clocks were used as the first
>> gravimeters, but is a pendulum clock a "clock",
>> or is it really an accelerometer.
>
>I think you'll find that was not based on their
>accuracy as timepieces but rather their 'inaccuracy'
>as timepieces.

I think I found all during 60 years of study
of gravitation that the pendulum was the most
accurate time piece for a couple of centuries.

>> Being a staunch supporter of the concepts
>> in Einsteins's Principle of Equivalence,
>
>Is he running for political office too?

No, he wasn't Newton, actualy he turned
down a guaranteed presidency, if you hate him
so much, you should know that.

>The sleight of pen in ~Behavior of Clocks and rods~
>does exhibit some talent in the craft.

Are you really so critically obsessed to
think that any man ever lived who wrote with
100 percent perfection?

Frankly, bewteen the foggy wild blue yonder
boy, the clueless boy, and the wicked witch of OZ,
many people find this newsgroup both boring and
a difficult place to find pleasant sincerity.

>> I think a
>> swinging pendulim is not a clock at all, it is
>> strictly an accelerometer.
>
>http://www.slcc.edu/schools/hum_sci/physics/tutor/2210/mechanical_oscillations/
>
>Sue...

When you learn to read, you will be able to visit
that site and see

[QUOTE]

Pendulums Simple Pendulum P = 2 Pi times the
square root of
Length / g
[UNQUOTE of translated language]


Every clock maker tried to make a perfect "simple
pendulum", and they came very close.

Without gravity, a pendulum clock would not
be worth much, it takes either a very disillusioned fool
or a moron with an obscene agenda to try to confuse
a pendulum with an oscillator.

Joe Fischer

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