half-swing

Updated: May 17, 2025

But, as this charge represents the operation of the attractive forces during the passage of the bob through the right-hand half-swing down to the centre of the arc, so it must needs be used up by the passage of the bob upwards from the centre of the arc to the summit of the left-hand half-swing. Hence, at this point, the bob comes to a momentary rest.

Thomas Henry Huxley - The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

"What ought I to do here?" he asked. Miss Somerset looked at the ball. She seemed to be weighing the matter in her mind. "Give it a good hard knock," she said. Mortimer knew what she meant. She was advocating a full iron. The only trouble was that, when he tried anything more ambitious than a half-swing, except off the tee, he almost invariably topped.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Clicking of Cuthbert

If, at this moment, the whole material universe, except the bob, were abolished, it would move for ever in the direction of a tangent to the middle of the arc described. As a matter of fact, it is compelled to travel through its left-hand half-swing, and thus virtually to go up hill.

Thomas Henry Huxley - The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

The bob of a pendulum swings first to one side and then to the other of the centre of the arc which it describes. Suppose it to have just reached the summit of its right-hand half-swing.

Thomas Henry Huxley - The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

WING AND TRAP-SHOOTING, by Charles Askins. Contains a full discussion of the various methods, such as snap-shooting, swing and half-swing, discusses the flight of birds with reference to the gunner's problem of lead and range and makes special application of the various points to the different birds commonly shot in this country.

Leon Luther Pray - Taxidermy