The Foucault pendulum,named after the French physicist Leon Foucault,was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. It is a tall pendulum free to oscillate in any vertical plane. The direction along which the pendulum swings rotates with time because of Earth's daily rotation | |
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