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    The Pit and the Pendulum

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    The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see The Pit and the Pendulum (disambiguation). The Pit and the Pendulum | Original 1961 theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown | Directed by | Roger Corman | Produced by | Roger Corman James H. Nicholson (Executive Producer) Samuel Z. Arkoff (Executive Producer) | Screenplay by | Richard Matheson | Based on | "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe

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    Pendulum Lab

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    Name: Kaili Smith Pendulum 1. Research to find equations that would help you find g using a pendulum. Design an experiment and test your design using Moon and Jupiter. Write your procedure in a paragraph that another student could use to verify your results. Show your data‚ graphs‚ and calculations that support your strategy. The time it takes a pendulum to complete one back-and-forth swing‚ called the pendulum’s period‚ depends only on the pendulum’s length and

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    The Pit and the Pendulum

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    Light of Darkness In the story‚ "The Pit and the Pendulum"‚ written by the infamous Edgar Allen Poe‚ written in 1843‚ places a man during the time of the Inquisition who is incarnated. Beginning the story‚ this man‚ who remains unnamed‚ receives a death sentence and immediately faints. Upon waking he finds himself in a completely dark room. Scared that he is inside a tomb‚ he moves around to reinsure himself. Upon exploring this darkened room he accidentally trips and falls finding that his

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    Pendulum Physics

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    Step 1: The hand holding the the weight in the pendulum will release the weight and allow it to swing forward to hit the car. This is potential energy by the force of motion of the weight on the pendulum. Potential energy is the energy an object produces due to its position. The pendulum swinging is it being in motion therefore it has kinetic energy. The force shown form this could be Applied Force. Applied force is a force that is applied to an object by a person or another object. Step 2: After

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    The Ballistic Pendulum Crime Lab Physics You are a criminologist‚ and have been given a gun which has been used in the commission of a crime. Both prosecution and defense claim that "muzzle velocity" (speed of the bullet as it leaves the gun) is crucial to the case. Your job...FIND IT! Shown below is a diagram representing a "ballistic pendulum." The bullet is fired into the block‚ the bullet-block combination rises by a height h as shown‚ a little physics is applied‚ and ...voila!...there

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    The Pit and the Pendulum

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    The Pit and the Pendulum" Symbolism: Although the events in the story create suspense and interest‚ its the story’s deeper meaning that makes it so good. An analysis of the pit (death or hell)‚ the scythe/pendulum (time and death)‚ and the angelic forms of the Inquisitorial tribune (angels of death) are three of many symbols in the novel. Stripped of extraneous detail‚ the story focuses on what horror truly is: not the physical pain of death‚ but the terrible realization that a victim has no choice

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    Pit And The Pendulum

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    Arellanes “The Pit and the Pendulum” is a short horror story. The story is set in the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Poe tells the story in a first person point of view. The story is a story of a man who is placed in a dark room. The man is sitting there. He is given a pitcher of spiked water. He drinks the water which causes him to lose consciousness. When he awakens‚ he is bound to a wooden bed. He notices the smell of burning iron when he awakens. When he is first awake‚ he notices he is in

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    The Pit and the Pendulum

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    Analysis One notable aspect of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose is his consistent use of detailed description‚ and he uses this tendency to great effect in his short story "The Pit and the Pendulum." The aim of the story is very simply to create a dark atmosphere of foreboding and anticipatory horror‚ and Poe achieves this by minutely tracking the path of the unnamed narrator’s thoughts and experiences. Although the narrator is‚ like most of Poe’s first-person protagonists‚ somewhat unreliable in nature

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    The Pit And The Pendulum

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    In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum‚” a nameless narrator is trapped in a prison awaiting for his fate. He ultimately finds himself being put to death by a swinging pendulum‚ and narrowly escapes. In Poe’s story‚ he many gothic elements in this narrative such as‚ a frantic narrator‚ visions about a dream-like state‚ a setting that creates an atmosphere of suspense‚ and finally the use of time to illustrate the horror of death. Poe employs these elements by the use of his playbook‚ which

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    does the length of a paper clip pendulum affect its period of oscillation? BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The simple pendulum: A pendulum is an example of a vibration with a regular‚ consistent motion. A simple pendulum is one which can be considered to be a point mass suspended from a string or rod of negligible mass. It is a resonant system with single resonant frequency. For small amplitues‚ the period of such a pendulum can be approximated by: Where‚ L – length of pendulum‚ T – time period‚ and g – local

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