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ballistic pendulum
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ballistic pendulum

Inventory Number2023-1-0022
ClassificationPendulum
Dimensions14.3 × 21.1 × 10.3 cm (5 5/8 × 8 5/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
DescriptionCylindical bob filled with wooden pallets. Used in experiments where a rifle is shot by students through a blast screen (paper) and into one end of the cylinder. Its motion away from the blast impact is then a representation of kinetic energy. Two hooks on top of the cylinder are attached to a bifilar wire system, ensuring the linear movement of the cylinder (and preventing it from rotating).
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Object number: 2023-1-0021
Blackwood ballistic pendulum
Central Scientific Company
Date: 1940-1950
Accessories: data card (in instrument's file); brass sphere
Object number: 1998-1-0036
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Object number: 2023-1-0024
AAPT Oersted Medal awarded to Edwin Herbert Hall
American Association of Physics Teachers
Date: dated 1937
Accessories: black leather case, for storage
Object number: 1998-1-1325
Harvard Project Physics poster from handbook
Harvard Project Physics
Date: 1962-1972
Accessories: in box tied with strings, with physics diagram (RS 1471)
Object number: RS1470
Kater pendulum, seconds-beating length model
Jean-Gabriel-Auguste Chevallier
Date: 1830-1848
Accessories: cork-like wooden object; wooden case 2 wooden "fins" (possibly part of case) 4 mounting screws 1 small brass mounting object 1 brass key-like object
Object number: 1998-1-1248
lantern slides on optics and kinetic theory of gases in wooden cabinet
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Date: 1930-1960
Accessories: Index of slides is saved as Excel file "index to drawers" on CHSI 3 and CHSI 9.
Object number: 2002-1-0099f
Overall view of the entire clock.
Simon Willard, Jr.
Date: 1832
Accessories: winding key
Object number: 2500
Clock installed on third floor of the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.
German
Date: late 19th Century
Object number: 2010-1-0022
Front view of the clock and its mahogany case.
Benjamin Franklin Willard
Date: 1844
Object number: 2501