People observing the Foucault Pendulum which is suspended from the height of three floors. The Foucault pendulum named after the French physicist Léon 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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