OT: Physics

[Tim Streater]

Which is the salient point. The clock only responds to the period, it doesn't give a monkey's how it was arrived at.

[soup]

At school we were taught g was 9.81 m/s^2. But in slide rule/pre calculator days we took it to be 10 to get the right magnitude of answer and to show we knew where to use it.

[Cursitor Doom]

This is what the tourbillon movement is designed to compensate for, innit?

[Dr J R Stockton]

In uk.d-i-y message , Tue, 24 Nov 2015

16:09:03, Tim+ posted:

Roughly so; but Big Ben is really a bell, not a clock.

[ed]

Yes it around 9.81 around latitudes of 45-55 N and S.