Foucault's Pendulum
Created | Updated Aug 29, 2002
Just notes people...but it will be something real soon.
<wizard>
- Brief history of them pendulum, creator and how it came to be
- What does it prove
- How does it work
- Interesting facts
- Sites of interest
Facts:
- first shown 3rd Feb 1851 at the Observatoire with a public demonstration on 26 March of the same year commissioned by the then Prince Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon III.
- in the Pantheon( just recently shown in the same place 150 years later) attached the "God eye"(an imaginary fixed point in the universe) in the ceiling
- swinging from a 67m wire
- a large white ring surrounds the area of the ossilations, marked to show the passage of time through 24 hours, seens to shift through the circle as time passes
- pendulum's plane of oscillation remains unchanged with respect to the stars even as the earth rotates. proof that the Panthéon moves around the pendulum and not vice-versa
<wizard>
- Brief history of them pendulum, creator and how it came to be
- What does it prove
- How does it work
- Interesting facts
- Sites of interest
Facts:
- first shown 3rd Feb 1851 at the Observatoire with a public demonstration on 26 March of the same year commissioned by the then Prince Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon III.
- in the Pantheon( just recently shown in the same place 150 years later) attached the "God eye"(an imaginary fixed point in the universe) in the ceiling
- swinging from a 67m wire
- a large white ring surrounds the area of the ossilations, marked to show the passage of time through 24 hours, seens to shift through the circle as time passes
- pendulum's plane of oscillation remains unchanged with respect to the stars even as the earth rotates. proof that the Panthéon moves around the pendulum and not vice-versa
