Measurement of Newton's constant using a torsion balance with angular acceleration feedback

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2869-2872

  Gundlach, Jens H ^a   Merkowitz, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PENDULUMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VELOCITY;

ANELASTIC TORSION FIBER PROPERTIES; ANGULAR ACCELERATION FEEDBACK; DIRECT NUMERIC INTEGRATION; NEWTON GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT; PENDULUM DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; TORSION BALANCE;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 0037635292     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2869     Document Type: Article

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