General model of damping in the time-of-swing experiment measuring the Newtonian gravitational constant

Authors
Bubanja, V
Citation
V. Bubanja, General model of damping in the time-of-swing experiment measuring the Newtonian gravitational constant, PHYS LETT A, 262(1), 1999, pp. 15-17
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICS LETTERS A
ISSN journal
03759601 → ACNP
Volume
262
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
15 - 17
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(19991025)262:1<15:GMODIT>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
We study the dissipation in the time-of-swing method of measuring the gravi tational constant. Modelling the environment as a bath of non-interacting m odes we derive the equation of motion of the pendulum in terms of the exper imentally obtainable spectral function. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Scie nce B.V. All rights reserved.