What's a pendulum anyway?

Something hanging from a fixed point which, when pulled back and released, is free to swing down by force of gravity and then out and up because of its inertia.

Inertia: means that bodies in motion, will stay in motion; bodies at rest, will stay at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.

weight at the bottom is called a "BOB"


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