Using a single-walled carbon nanotube as both a mechanical support and a torsional spring, scientists have built a tiny, electrically controlled pendulum (Science 2005, 309, 1539). Jannik C. Meyer and ...

THE following very simple apparatus may I think be of use in any laboratory or other place where at times it is necessary to have a pendulum beating seconds in order to give the time for any ...

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