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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. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area is monitored over an extended period of time, its plane of oscillation appears to change ...
The oldest Foucault Pendulum in Romania is located in pavilion B of the University of Oradea. It was installed in 1964 by Prof. Coriolan Rus, the then dean of the Faculty of Mathematics - Physics. (length: 14m; weight: 60 kg) "Vasile Alecsandri" National College in Galați (length: 9,92m; weight: 8 kg)
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A real Foucault Pendulum takes 24 hours to complete the oscillation cycle-- this is misleading and therefore unencyclopedic. Spikebrennan 23:54, 27 January 2008 (UTC) I believe the point here is not to show the time, but the trajectory of the pendulum. Surely an animated gif which takes 24 hours to complete its purpose wouldn't be of much ...
The Foucault pendulum connection is constructed such that the pendulum is free to swing in any direction. This is not the same thing as the support connection being free to rotate (spin). The swing of the pendulum is different from the rotation (spin) of the bob.
Foucault published two papers in 1852, one focused on astronomy with the weight free to move on all three axes (On a new experimental demonstration of the motion of the Earth, based on the fixity of the plane of rotation) [8] and the other on mechanics with the weight free to move on only two axes (On the orientation phenomena of rotating bodies driven by a fixed axis on the Earth's surface.
The green trace shows the path of the pendulum bob over the ground, and the blue trace shows the path in a frame of reference rotating with the plane of the pendulum. to B but the reference to north pole and to fixed stars is not correct: Animation of a Foucault pendulum at the North Pole, with the earth's rotation rate greatly exaggerated. The ...
Modern Automated Paraconical Pendulum at Göde Wissenschafts Stiftung. The paraconical pendulum is a type of pendulum invented in the 1950s by Maurice Allais, a French researcher. During the 1950s, Maurice Allais conducted six marathon series of long-term observations, during each of which his team manually operated and manually monitored his ...