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The discussion focuses on the behavior of a conical pendulum in an accelerating elevator. When the elevator accelerates upwards with an acceleration 'a', the effective gravitational acceleration is modified to 'g + a'. This adjustment directly influences the cycle time of the pendulum, as the formula for the time period incorporates this new effective gravitational force.

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what happens to an Pendulum conical that is in an accelerating elevator, i mean to its cycle time ?
 
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If it's accelerating upwards with acceleration a, you would just replace g with g+a in the formula for the time period.
 

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