Foucault, revisited: Scientists show how to build a pendulum for any classroom
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 10:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Walk into nearly any science museum worth its salt and you're likely to see a Foucault pendulum, a simple but impressive device for observing the Earth's rotation. Such pendulums have been around for more than 150 years, and little about how they work remains a mystery today.