Definition:Conical Pendulum
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Definition
A conical pendulum is a simple pendulum whose bob moves in a circle in the horizontal plane with constant angular speed.
Hence, the shaft is the generatrix of a right circular cone.
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Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): conical pendulum
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): conical pendulum