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Double pendulum to illustrate the damping of oscillations
The apparatus consists of a rectangular wooden box divided into two compartments in which the weights of two metal pendulums of equal length oscillate. By filling one compartment with water or another liquid and leaving the other empty, we observe that the damping of the pendulum oscillations is proportional [...]
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- Mechanics
- mechanics (physics)
Type of item
- Pendulum
- pendulums
Providing institution
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- second half 18th cent.
- 1800
- 1751
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:416016
Extent
- 305x710x840 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Lorraine collection
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/biography/JeanAntoineNollet.html
Year
- 1751
- 1800
Providing country
- Italy