P-Motion,
I think this would be a good place for you to start with correcting me.
Warning you may regret opening this door, but seeing as how you have, here goes!
OK! here is my rebuttal; First I I want it understood this for the benefit of other new members and although it may sound personal, I do not imply as such.
I have the impression that you are more of a math geek or pencil pusher than a person who does not mind a little grease under the fingernails. You only absorb what you think is your approach. You avoid by speed reading pertinent data that does not fit your liking and respond by changing the subject to fit your thesis.
From what you keep saying, you are not familiar with pendulums.
You obviously have not done your home work. With a little editing of past threads you will find that my first topic thread upon joining this forum was about pendulums and connecting rod ratios. I have a Celtic pendulum hanging in my shop that has a five foot cross arm and a six foot rod and a five pound bob. Weights on the cross arm act as inertial dampeners and is interchangeable is size and distance from pivot. The driving mechanism is also adjustable in length and stroke. The pivot point can also be adjusted compensating for all three primary types of balance scales. Said pivot point may also be made to slide placing axis point in opposition or opposite amplitude apex. Telling me that I am not familiar with a pendulum is a very bad assumption on your part!
But what you, like most people seem to forget is that just because an idea fails on its' first attempt does not mean it doesn't work. It may just need to be modified. This is where understanding all of the parameters comes into play.
Boy! now you are really showing your self egomania. What the heck do you think I have been doing for the last 50 years. When I build a design I stay with it until I have exhausted every conceivable approach. The foundation of each concept is laid out to allow for future modifications, trial and error research.
No one had mentioned that the longer the arm on a pendulum, the more time it takes to swing. An observation everyone missed and would have something to do with this design.
Every one missed??? Did you sleep through history or basic physics classes. Or do you simply envision yourself as the founder of this fact.
I have one on my clock and it swings quite nicely. Maybe someone can explain to me where friction is stopping it.
Yes I imagine it does swing quite nicely, where as it is kept swinging by a small nudge from the escapement wheel and pawl. A pulse provided by an outside source such as a manual wound spring or weights hanging on a chain sprocket. If this small input per cycle is removed friction of the pivot point, air resistance and gravity will soon cease its function. Remember, a pendulum is in balance when static at the vertical position.
Galileo (1564-1642), Italian physicist and astronomer, who, with the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, initiated the scientific revolution that flowered in the work of the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton.
The principle of the pendulum was discovered by Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo,
who established that the period for the back-and-forth oscillation of a pendulum of a given length remains the same, no matter how large its arc, or amplitude. (If the amplitude is too large, however, the period of the pendulum is dependent on the amplitude.) This phenomenon is called isochronism, and Galileo noted its possible applications in timekeeping. Because of the role played by gravity, however, the period of a pendulum is related to geographical location, because the strength of gravity varies as a function of latitude and elevation. For example, the period will be greater on a mountain than at sea level. Thus, the pendulum can be used to determine accurately the local acceleration of gravity.
"Pendulum," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 97 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
