Wilberforce pendulum

noun

Wilberforce pendulum

noun

Etymology Invented by British physicist Lionel Robert Wilberforce around 1896.

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A pendulum consisting of a mass suspended by a long helical spring and free to turn on its vertical axis, twisting the spring; used as a demonstration in physics education.

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