Henry Kater

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Henry Kater

British physicist

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In 1817 the English physicist Henry Kater, building on the work of the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, was the first to use a reversible pendulum to make absolute measurements of g. If the periods of swing of a rigid pendulum about two alternative points of support are the same,…
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In 1817 the English physicist Henry Kater, building on the work of the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, was the first to use a reversible pendulum to make absolute measurements of g. If the periods of swing of a rigid pendulum about two alternative points of support are the same,…
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