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What is a second's pendulum?

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A pendulum whose time period of vibration in 2 seconds.
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MODERN PUBLICATION-OSCILLATIONS -Revision Exercises (Very Short Answer Questions)
  1. Define simple pendulum.

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  2. How will you define length of the simple pendulum ?

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  3. The time period of a simple pendulum depends on its

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  4. What forces keep the simple pendulum in simple harmonic motion?

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  5. How time period of a simple pendulum depends on the acceleration due t...

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  6. The time period of a simple pendulum of infinite length is (R=radius o...

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  7. What is the time period of a simple pendulum if length of the pendulum...

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  8. Will pendulum clock lose or gain time on hills or inside the mines ?

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  9. What will happen to the time period of a simple pendulum if it is made...

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  10. What is a second's pendulum?

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  11. Effective length of a seconds pendulum is about.

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  12. What will be the time period of a simple pendulum if it is made to osc...

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  13. What will be the spring constant k of a. spring if length of the spr...

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  14. What will be the spring constant k of a spring if spring is divided in...

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  15. What do you mean by undamped oscillations?

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  16. How damping force depends on the velocity system?

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  17. What are undamped and damped oscillations ?

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  18. What are free oscillations? Give one example.

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  19. What are forced oscillations? Give one example.

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  20. What are resonant oscillations? Give one example.

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