arXiv - online documents repository at Cornell University :: Number of documents found: 8


(8572) A theory of mass and gravity in 4-dimensional optics

(8573) A review of conventional explanations of anomalous observations during solar eclipses

(8574) TELEPENSOUTH project: Measurement of the Earth gravitomagnetic field in a terrestrial laboratory
    Author: Pascual-Sanchez, J.F. :: Year Vol (No) Month (or Chapter/Auction item): gr-qc/0207122 :: Pages: 1 - 7
    Comments and/or Abstract > south pole experiment

(11678) Complex Trajectories of a Simple Pendulum
    Author: Bender Carl M. :: Year Vol (No) Month (or Chapter/Auction item): :: Pages: 11
    Comments and/or Abstract > preprint published at arXiv:math-ph/0609068 v1 25 Sep 2006

(11687) Feedback Control and Characterization of a Microcantilever Using Optical Radiation Pressure
    Comments and/or Abstract > http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0606/0606394v2.pdf optical pressure on cantilever using a laser

(15216) How simple is simple pendulum?
    Author: Arun P. :: Year Vol (No) Month (or Chapter/Auction item): :: Pages:
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(15160) Grand-mother clocks and quiet lasers
    Comments and/or Abstract > Galileo noted in the 16th century that the period of oscillation of a pendulum is almost independent of the amplitude. However, such a pendulum is damped by air friction. The latter may be viewed as resulting from air molecules getting in contact with the pendulum. It follows that air friction, not only damps the oscillation, but also introduces randomness. In the so-called ``grand-mother'' clock, discovered by Huygens in the 18th century, damping is compensated for, on the average, by an escapement mechanism driven by a falling weight. The purpose of this paper is to show that such a clock is, in its idealized form, a quiet oscillator. By ``quiet'' we mean that in spite of the randomness introduced by damping, the dissipated power (viewed as the oscillator output) does not fluctuate slowly. Comparison is made with quiet laser oscillators discovered theoretically in 1984. Because the input power does not fluctuate in both the mechanical oscillator and the quiet laser oscillator, the output power does not fluctuate at small Fourier frequencies, irrespectively of the detailed mechanisms involved.

(15481) Short Foucault Pendulum Free of Ellipsoidal Precession [A]
    Comments and/or Abstract > important new paper - impulse at correct point and direction eliminates elliptical motion