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It has to do with the definition of the meter. Before that, let's look at the Seconds pendulum. This is a pendulum that takes exactly 1 second to go from one side of its motion to the other (or a ...
I said that the period of a pendulum with a length of 1 meter is 2 seconds. This would mean that pi squared would be g (the gravitational field in N/kg) - which it is. Oh, well that is just a ...
Only the length of the pendulum mattered. Within mere decades, pendulums with a period of exactly one second were introduced. For the first time, time could be accurately kept here on Earth ...
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