Re: Foucault pendulum
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- Subject: [mg80258] Re: Foucault pendulum
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:33:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Stanford University
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> > On 12 , 14:17, dimitris <dimmec... at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hello. > >> Does anyone have notebooks > >> demonstrating Foucault's pendulum? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Dimitris > > > > I mean the motion of a Foucalt's pendulum of course. Do you mean just a Foucault pendulum in isolation? Or a more complex model showing a mini-Earth rotating in space with a mini-FP mounted on it, swinging back and forth as it's carried around on the mini-Earth? Seems to me the latter would be very hard to display effectively, because of the huge difference in sizes involved. And just the former in isolation would give little or no insight into _why_ the FP does what it does -- and convey little of the mystery of a real FP in some museum or science hall, with the huge ball swinging lowly back and forth and the ring of pins around the circle, with part of them knocked over. But I'll wait to see what emerges from this thread . . .