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A swing hangs from vertical poles and . Ropes and of lengths and are massless and perpendicular to each other, with a point mass hanging from (Figure 5.102). The period of small oscillations perpendicular to the plane of the paper is:

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The bob swings about the line through the two upper fixing points, of length . The distance of from this line is the altitude of the right triangle, . This is the effective length, so .

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