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    What is common between the pendulum clock and atomic clock ?

    Question #60248. Asked by UT-7. (Oct 28 05 11:48 PM)


    picqero

    		Both tell the time?

    Oct 29 05, 5:03 AM
    UT-7

    		Not so bad, Picqero!
    Are there any more ideas?

    Oct 29 05, 6:18 AM
    JoshCaleb12

    		Both depend on an "osscilator" to measure time intervals... In the case of the pendulum clock that osscilator is that "swingin'" thing that we associate with Grandfather Clocks... In an atomic clock, the osscilator is a quartz crystal... well, I'll let the following website explain...

    http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/atomclocks/page3.asp

    Oct 29 05, 7:57 AM
    picqero

    		Well, I got it partly right anyway!

    Oct 29 05, 1:02 PM

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