do not have to be determined, allowing a greater accuracy. For about a century, until the 1930s, Kater's pendulum and its various refinements remained the standard method for measuring the strength of the Earth's gravity during geodetic surveys. It is now used only for demonstrating pendulum principles.

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A pendulum can be used to measure the acceleration of gravity g because for narrow swings (when the small angle approximation

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