Foucault's Pendulum

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4551.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4551. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Coordinates, Time, And Motion, Positional Concepts

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A freely swinging pendulum mounted in such a way as to reduce its physical contact with the Earth to an absolute minimum. An ideal pendulum of this type would, if set swinging in a particular plane at one of the Earth's poles, continue to swing in that same plane relative to the `fixed stars', and the Earth would rotate underneath it. To the observer on the Earth's surface, the pendulum would be ...

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