There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb .
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There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb .
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Watch a male in fight. He will pendulate over one spot for ten or fifteen minutes , then change his position and pendulate again .
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Lungarella and Metta (in Lungarella, M. and Metta, G. 2003) studies the role of changes in the qcquisition of primary motor abilities: learning to pendulate (to swing like a pendulum) or bounce. In the first case the study was conducted with a small-sized humanoid robot that learned to pendulate.
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What's important to realize is that you can pendulate—swing back and forth—between these sensations of expansion and contraction.
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