In consequence of this fact the balance wheel of a watch is isochronous or nearly so, notwithstanding variations in the amplitude of its vibrations.
Measurements of small intervals of time are performed by means of chronographs which in principle depend on the use of isochronousvibrating tuning-forks in place of pendulums.
However, for a short distance near the bottom, the circle so nearly coincides with the cycloid that a pendulum swinging in the usual circular path is, for small arcs, isochronous for practical purposes.
The watch is not isochronous if there is both a gain and a loss in the rate, even though the time be perfect at the expiration of twenty-four hours.
A twenty-four hour test in any position may prove that the long and short arcs are made in equal time showing the spring to be isochronous and yet the position variations have not been accounted for.
This we can conceive, but how can other waves, which are not isochronouswith the rhythmic swing of the atoms, alter the composition of the molecule?
This is what is called isochronous vibration--the passing through unequal arcs in equal periods of time.
Hence it is that the vibrations of unequal weights are isochronous when hung on strings of equal lengths.
Galileo published his discovery of the isochronousproperty of the pendulum in 1639.
This was a great advance, as a more accurate division of time was had by improving the isochronous properties of the vibrating escapement.
Hooke found the better way to produce perfectisochronous movements was to cause the pendulum to swing in short arcs, which he accomplished by his invention of the anchor escapement.
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