DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE OSCILLATION DECAY IN PENDULUMS WITH SMALL ENERGY DISSIPATIONS

Authors
BILENKO IA MITROFANOV VP OKHRIMENKO OA
Citation
Ia. Bilenko et al., DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE OSCILLATION DECAY IN PENDULUMS WITH SMALL ENERGY DISSIPATIONS, Instruments and experimental techniques, 36(5), 1993, pp. 785-787
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Instument & Instrumentation",Engineering
Journal title
Instruments and experimental techniques → ACNP
ISSN journal
00204412
Volume
36
Issue
5
Year of publication
1993
Part
2
Pages
785 - 787
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-4412(1993)36:5<785:DFMTOD>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
This paper describes a device which can measure pendulum-oscillation d ecay times of the order of congruent-to 107 sec. This is the decay tim e characteristic of pendulums produced entirely from high-quality fuse d quartz. The decay time was derived from the change in the oscillatio n amplitude measured by an optical pickup. Its operation is based on a n amplitude-to-time conversion.