" The Pit and the Pendulum " can be considered a serious re-telling of the satirical " A Predicament ".

Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

The true period of an ideal simple gravity pendulum can be written in several different forms ( see Pendulum ( mathematics ) ), one example being the infinite series:

The main plot of the novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco revolves around search for the Ombilicus Mundi ( Latin: The Navel of the World ), the mystic Center of The Earth which is supposed to be a certain point from where a person could control the energies and shapes of the earth thus reforming it at will.

Yee has also undertaken a number of other collaborations include singing on the Pendulum song, " Sounds of Life " on their 2005 album, Hold Your Colour, backing vocals for Fourth Floor Collapse as well as vocals for " Can ’ t let You be Lonely " by The Transients.

Pendulum Instruments continues to be a leading brand of test & measurement instruments and are also sold under the Fluke brand name in most parts of the world, and total sales in the specific field are second only to Agilent Technologies.

A common reference for safety is that the Pendulum Test Value should be 36 or higher under the conditions of use ( wet, dry, etc .).

While Hold Your Colour holds true to the drum and bass genre, Pendulum have since experimented with mixing other genres into their work, as can be heard on In Silico and Immersion.

After releasing several singles such as " Spiral " / " Ulterior Motive " and many tracks to be included in their forthcoming release, Pendulum released their debut album, Hold Your Colour in 2005.

It was announced in December that Pendulum will be touring for their new album in May 2010.

On 5 April Pendulum announced via Twitter and the band's website that a previously unreleased track from Immersion, titled " Ransom ", would be released on Pendulum's website, with 100 % of the proceeds going to help disaster relief efforts in the wake of the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

On 3 January 2012, Pendulum announced via Twitter that they would be taking a hiatus from touring while thanking their fans for the last several years.

On 16 June 2012, Rob Swire announced via Twitter that there will be no further Pendulum live shows and there are no current plans for a new album in 2013.

The side project will not be linked in any means to Pendulum and will consist of electro house, dubstep and other club genres, and is now the duo's primary project.

Pendulum were known to be fans of progressive rock and progressive metal bands, which may have inspired them to fuse multiple genres of music together, which is standard practice in those genres.

Freemasonic writers added their own speculations in the 19th century, and further fictional embellishments have been added in popular novels such as Ivanhoe, Foucault's Pendulum, The Lost symbol, and The Da Vinci Code ; modern movies such as National Treasure and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ; and video games such as Assassin's Creed and Broken Sword.

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

Most significantly this included: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ; The Crucible by Arthur Miller ; The Cask of Amontillado, The Premature Burial, The Pit and the Pendulum & The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe ; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ; The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ; Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens ; The Monkey's Paw by Guy de Maupaussant ; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ; The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft ; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ; The Lottery by Shirley Jackson ; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

At one point, he falls in love with a female satyr-like creature who recounts to him the full Gnostic creation myth ; Gnosticism is a pervasive presence in another of Eco's novels, Foucault's Pendulum.

Abulafia ’ s life inspired a series of literary works such as poems by Ivan Goll, Moses Feinstein ( not Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ) and Nathaniel Tarn ; Umberto Eco ’ s novel Foucault's Pendulum ; and a play by George-Elie Bereby ; in art, Abraham Pincas ’ paintings and Bruriah Finkel ’ s sculptures ; and several musical pieces.

" Of " The Pit and the Pendulum " in particular he said, " does not seem to me to have permanent literary value of any kind ... Analyse the Pit and the Pendulum and you find an appeal to the nerves by tawdry physical affrightments.

The motion of an undamped Pendulum approximates to simple harmonic motion if the amplitude is very small relative to the length of the rod.

The animation describes the motion of a Foucault Pendulum at a latitude of 30 ° N.

He has become well known for his predictions of electoral outcomes using the Mackerras Pendulum, a tabular representation of the likelihood that a parliamentary outcome will occur due to the swing of electors ' opinion needed to change the result.

His most recent book, released in January 2011, is Pendulum Swing, which analyzes the 2010 midterm elections and explores how the Republican victories could affect the 2012 presidential, congressional, and state-level elections.

* Eric W. Weisstein, Double pendulum ( 2005 ), ScienceWorld ( contains details of the complicated equations involved ) and " Double Pendulum " by Rob Morris, Wolfram Demonstrations Project, 2007 ( animations of those equations ).

* " Foucault's Pendulum " by Jens-Peer Kuska with Jeff Bryant, Wolfram Demonstrations Project: a computer model of the pendulum allowing manipulation of pendulum frequency, Earth rotation frequency, latitude, and time.

* Edgar Allan Poe's " The Pit and the Pendulum ": The unnamed character finds himself bound to a large slab, beneath a bladed pendulum that slowly lowers toward him as it swings, with the intention of slicing through his chest.

The novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco deals greatly with this establishment, as the Foucault pendulum hung in the museum plays a great role in the storyline.

File: Foucault pendulum at Griffith Observatory. jpg | Foucault Pendulum in the center of W. M. Keck Foundation Central Rotunda.

The Eötvös pendulum was never patented, but after the demonstration of its accuracy and numerous visits to Hungary from abroad several instruments were exported worldwide, and the richest oilfields in the United States were discovered by Eötvös ' Pendulum.

* Pendulum – A superhero that is a human pendulum.

His first major work was Australian General Elections ( 1972 ) in which he pioneered the concept of the two-party majority and the two-party swing, and introduced the " pendulum ", a table of federal electorates in order of two-party majority, now commonly known as the Mackerras Pendulum.

* Pendulum ( mathematics ), the mathematical principles of a pendulum

* Pendulum clock, a kind of clock that uses a pendulum to keep time

Earthquake shaking table | Shake-table testing of Earthquake engineering # Friction pendulum bearing | Friction Pendulum Bearings at EERCResearch for earthquake engineering means both field and analytical investigation or experimentation intended for discovery and scientific explanation of earthquake engineering related facts, revision of conventional concepts in the light of new findings, and practical application of the developed theories.

The clock displayed in the room has a blade pendulum, in reference to Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, which was also the basis for a movie featuring Vincent Price.

* The 1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum directed by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price and Barbara Steele, like the other installments in the Corman / Price " Poe Cycle ", bears minimal resemblance to the Poe story: the torture apparatus of the title makes its appearance only in the final 10 minutes of the film.

It is often suggested that John Fogerty's interest in putting Hammond B3 on the album " Pendulum " was a direct nod to Booker T and the mutual admiration both bands had for each other.

He worked on movie soundtracks for B-movie studio American International Pictures where he composed and conducted scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror stories and teenage musicals, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Comedy of Terrors, Muscle Beach Party, The Dunwich Horror, and Frogs.

The Inter-Related Pendulum made possible spectacular, highly controlled, free flight, but required operators with a high degree of skill and precision, as the performer's weight passes from one suspension point to the other.

It preceded the release of the full-length album Haha Sound ; the title track " Pendulum " is the only song from the EP to also feature on that album, though several other tracks from this EP were later included on the 2006 rarities compilation The Future Crayon.

In January 2011, Pendulum released a Deluxe Edition of Immersion via iTunes which contained the album's original 15 tracks and a collection of remixes of " Watercolour ", " Witchcraft " and " The Island " by other artists including deadmau5, Tiësto and Chuckie.

* The history of the Hollow Earth theory is explored in Umberto Eco's 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum, alongside a wide range of other pseudo-scientific and conspiracy theories.