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Foucault's pendulum@Panthéon, Paris

The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.

 

There are numerous Foucault pendulums around the world, mainly at universities, science museums and planetariums. The experiment has even been carried out at the South Pole.

There are 4 in india :

-Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, India

-Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune,

-India Tel Bhavan, ONGC, Dehradun,

-India Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, GUJARAT.

 

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Uploaded on June 5, 2009
Taken on October 21, 2008