How Well Do You Know The Pendulum Clock?
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 116
Using either a pendulum or a swinging weight for timekeeping, a pendulum clock is a harmonic oscillator which swings forward and backward in an exact time interim subject to its length and opposes swinging at different rates.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
Which year was the Pendulum Clock invented?- A.
1655
- B.
1656
- C.
1670
- D.
1657
- 2.
The Pendulum Clock was invented by...
- A.
Isaac Newton
- B.
Michael Faraday
- C.
Galileo
- D.
Christian Huygens
- 3.
The Mercury pendulum clock was invented by...
- A.
Isaac Newton
- B.
Galileo
- C.
George Graham
- D.
Jones Smith
- 4.
The gridiron pendulum clock was invented by...
- A.
Isaac Newton
- B.
Jones Harrison
- C.
George Graham
- D.
Christian Holmes
- 5.
The movement of all mechanical pendulum clocks have how many parts?
- A.
1
- B.
5
- C.
3
- D.
6
- 6.
A major source of errors in pendulum clocks is...
- A.
Thermal expansion
- B.
Mechanical expansion
- C.
Mechanical relativity
- D.
Thermal relativity
- 7.
The pendulum clock uses pendulum as its...
- A.
Movement elements
- B.
Time storing swing
- C.
Swing element
- D.
Time keeping element
- 8.
The Mercury pendulum clock was invented in...
- A.
1720
- B.
1721
- C.
1734
- D.
1742
- 9.
The gridiron pendulum was invented in...
- A.
1726
- B.
1734
- C.
1742
- D.
1725
- 10.
Which of the following is not a Pendulum Clock?
- A.
Lantern
- B.
Banjo
- C.
Bird nest
- D.
Cuckoo
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