The Foucault Pendulum

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This website, from Physclips, provides a general explanation of the Foucault pendulum, which is a laboratory demonstration of the earth's rotation. Some historical material is presented, along with a discussion of the motion of the pendulum. The site also contains several animations of the pendulum motion and links to other pendulum sites.

https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/foucault_pendulum.ht...

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Solar System = Earth Classical Mechanics - Relative Motion = Rotating Reference Frames Oscillations & Waves - Oscillations = Pendula	- High School - Lower Undergraduate - Informal Education - Upper Undergraduate	- Reference Material

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	This resource was featured by the Physics To Go collection from December 1, 2007 until December 16, 2007. View the feature here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: Has a copyright or other licensing restriction.
Keywords:: Earth, Foucault pendulum, inertial reference frame, precess, precession, rotation
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created October 9, 2007 by Ann Deml
Record Updated:: June 21, 2010 by Ed Lee

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