It takes the average reader 2 hours and 48 minutes to read Galileo’s Pendulum by Roger G. NEWTON
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead--and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology. The principle of the pendulum's swing--a property called isochronism--marks a simple yet fundamental system in nature, one that ties the rhythm of time to the very existence of matter in the universe. Roger Newton...
Galileo’s Pendulum by Roger G. NEWTON is 165 pages long, and a total of 42,075 words.
This makes it 56% the length of the average book. It also has 51% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 49 minutes to read Galileo’s Pendulum aloud.
Galileo’s Pendulum is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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