The author describes a physical pendulum designed to reduce significantly friction and flexure at its point of suspension. Theoretical results concerning the basic period for motions of the pendulum in the neighborhood of the stabilized upward position are experimentally confirmed, as are theoretical results concerning the stability boundary of such motions.
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Douglas J. Ness (1967) studied this question.
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