simple pendulum

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   a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant length

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Questions about simple pendulum

What does simple pendulum mean?

simple pendulum means "a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant length".

Is simple pendulum a common word?

simple pendulum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.