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Zinaida Beynon and the California Academy of Sciences
This introductory website provides a step-by-step explanation of how a pendulum works and how the rotation of the earth causes the effects observed in a Foucault pendulum. A history of the understanding of the earth's rotation is also provided.
<a href="https://www.compadre.org/introphys/items/detail.cfm?ID=4789">Beynon, Zinaida, and California Academy of Sciences. About Foucault Pendulums. June 21, 2007.</a>
Beynon, Z., & California Academy of Sciences. (2007, June 21). About Foucault Pendulums. Retrieved January 14, 2025, from http://www.academypendulums.com/pendulum/
Beynon, Zinaida, and California Academy of Sciences. About Foucault Pendulums. June 21, 2007. http://www.academypendulums.com/pendulum/ (accessed 14 January 2025).
Beynon, Zinaida, and California Academy of Sciences. About Foucault Pendulums. 1999. 21 June 2007. 14 Jan. 2025 <http://www.academypendulums.com/pendulum/>.
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Title = {About Foucault Pendulums},
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Month = {June 21, 2007},
Year = {1999}
}
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