Torque of Compound pendulum
Description
A compound pendulum (or physical pendulum) is one where the rod is not massless, and may have extended size; that is, an arbitrarily shaped rigid body swinging by a pivot. The torque that is generated by gravity is related to the length of the pendulum, its mass and the angle of the vertical.
Related formulasVariables
| τ | Torque of Compound pendulum (N*m) |
| m | Mass of the pendulum (kg) |
| g | Gravity acceleration (m/s2) |
| L | Distance from the pivot to the center of mass of the pendulum (m) |
| θ | Angle from the vertical (radians) |