In a message dated 25/06/2005, royb1@........... writes:

A  friend has several high precision pendulum clocks (and has built 2  
others).
He asked me to inquire of this list about where  to get tables of 
earth tide data so that he can compare changes in the  local value of g 
to daily variations of period which he sees in his  clocks.



Hi Bob,
 
    If my memory is correct, the tide effects are at  the 0.1 ppm level and 
below. 1 ppm is about 1 sec every 11.57 days. You don't  say what level of 
accuracy he is aiming at. Three serious problems are providing  adequate thermal 
compensation, removing the effects of variations in the angle  of swing and 
removing seismic / environmental motion changes - particularly the  ocean 
background. Dual coupled pendulums working in antiphase can be an  advantage here. 
The pendulums need to be in airtight casings to remove  atmospheric density 
changes. Providing a high vacuum will show greatly increased  Qs, up to maybe a 
million, mostly below 10^-3 torr. The ecitation and the  relation of it to the 
timing of the swing are critical. He needs to  correlate drifts with daily 
changes to remove solar heating, ground tilts,  weather effects.....
 
    The NAWCC science chapter 161 
_http://www.ubr.com/clocks/nawcc/hsc/hsc.html_ (http://www.ubr.com/clocks/nawcc/hsc/hsc.html)  has  a lot of worthwhile 
articles in their archives.
 
    Regads,
 
    Chris Chapman






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