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content provider: the Kentucky Educational Television
This 6-minute video stars a young boy who is concerned about spinning through space until he is introduced to a Foucault pendulum. He learns all about how French scientist Leon Foucault experimented with the pendulum in the 19th century to demonstrate Earth's rotation and its steady, measurable motion. The pendulum in the video isn't deviating from its fixed endpoint.....the rotating Earth just makes it look that way. The video is appropriate for elementary school.

This video features the Foucault's Pendulum located at the Lexington, KY, public library.

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Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Fundamentals
= Gravity
Classical Mechanics
- Gravity
= Universal Gravitation
- Motion in Two Dimensions
= Central Forces
- Rotational Dynamics
= Conservation of Angular Momentum
General Physics
- History
Oscillations & Waves
- Oscillations
= Pendula
= Simple Harmonic Motion
- Elementary School
- Informal Education
- Instructional Material
= Activity
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
Appropriate Courses Categories Ratings
- Physical Science
- Activity
- New teachers
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Learner
General Public
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application/flash
text/html
Access Rights:
Free access
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© 2009 Kentucky Educational Television, 2009
Keywords:
Earth's rotation, Foucault, elementary school , gravitation, pendulum video, periodic motion
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created October 19, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:
August 19, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update
when Cataloged:
September 30, 2010
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