Answer by Cleonis for Can a Foucault pendulum really prove Earth is rotating?
There is a 1969 paper by E. O. Schulz-DuBois titled, 'Foucault pendulum Experiment by Kamerlingh Onnes and Degenerate Perturbation Theory', discussing the research into pendulum swing by H. Kamerling...
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If at it's highest point, it has a tiny velocity in a direction perpendicular to the direction to the lowest point on the pendulum, then maybe it would have such a tiny deviation from moving exactly...
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About the construction of a Foucault pendulum: I have read several accounts from teams that had constructed a Foucault pendulum. And indeed a recurring theme is that is very hard to get the parasitic...
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The thing that Foucault did was not just to predict that a pendulum would undergo precession, but also to predict which way the precession would go, and how rapidly, depending on the latitude of the...
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According to this article, a Foucault pendulum proved Earth was rotating. I'm not sure it really proved it.If Earth weren't rotating and a Foucault pendulum started in a state with zero velocity, it...
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