Foucault pendulum
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title:
Foucault pendulum
text:
The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. A long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area was monitored over an extended time period, showing that its plane of oscillation rotated. The pendulum was introduced in 1851 and was the first experiment to give simple, direct evidence of the Earth's rotation. Foucault followed up in 1852 with a gy
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Device to demonstrate Earth's rotation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum
date created:
2002-08-17T19:02:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T07:20:28Z
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