Tutorial on gravitational pendulum theory applied to seismic sensing of translation and rotation

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 B, 2009, Pages 1050-1063

  Peters, Randall D ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND PENDULUM; SEISMIC SENSING; SIMPLE PENDULUMS;

ROTATION;

PENDULUMS;

ACCELERATION; RIGIDITY; ROTATION; SEISMOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 67650002717     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080163     Document Type: Article

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