[time-nuts] Non electrical time-nuttery

Don Latham djl at montana.com
Wed Jan 13 04:07:38 UTC 2010


not hard to visualize.  If done that way, perhaps the two rods/tubes and the 
bob should be stress relieved by liquid nitrogen treatment. Seems to work 
for rifle barrels (one of my other time absorbers)
Don

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From: "Lux, Jim (337C)" <james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov>
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>
>>> BTW, Invar has a really low tempcoefficient, but tends to random
>>> shifts in its structure, yielding to abrupt length changes. Can't
>>> have everything, I suppose...
>>
>
> That's what my friend trying to build the 1ppm pendulum found.  He found
> that the standard technique is to build the pendulum out of two metals 
> with
> different CTE, arranged so that as the temperature changes, the center of
> mass of the pendulum stays the same.
>
> Imagine the long shaft of, say, 1 meter, with a CTE of 10 ppm/degree. You
> support the bob with a sleeve attached at the bottom of the main shaft of
> 30cm with a CTE of 30 ppm material (so the bob sits at 70cm from the 
> pivot).
> As the temperature rises, the main shaft gets longer, but so does the
> sleeve, so it pushes the bob back to the proper location.   (Wow, is this
> difficult to describe in words)
>
>
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