Re: Leap Second Quiz Question

2017-01-02 Thread Geoff Thurston
Happy New Year to one and all, The University Clock has gained 0.5 seconds against UTC in the past week but is now 2.0 seconds ahead of UTC because of the leap second. If Frank removed coins in accordance with the LWG for 0.5 seconds, then the clock's rate would be rectified but the clock would

RE: Leap Second Quiz Question

2017-01-02 Thread Frank King
Dear All, Many interesting comments... David Brown wrote: > ...the place where you add/remove the coins > is below the current C.G. This is a theoretical possibility but all the large pendulum clocks I have looked at have an annular tray round the shaft ABOVE the pendulum bob... There are