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Sure, I'm not expecting to get an exact answer with such a simple problem description. My gut feeling, if the weight of the bar is neglected, is that it won't make any difference. But in my actual case it does have a weight, although very small (a wooden bar, 2 cm in diameter). So I'd be curious...

Hi BvU, I appreaciate your willingness for me to figure it out myself. However, the pendulum I am building does not look like the ones in the school books with formulaes attached to them, there they are often depicted hanging in a string in one fixed point. This pendulum swings using this...

Hi, I have a question regarding a pendulum and it's motion/momentum given the axis it moves around. In the below picture, there are two version of a pendulum with a weight at the bottom. It moves in and out of the screen, around an axis resting on two nails (red). My question is, how does the...