Pendulum
The famous Faoucault pendulum at the Panthéon in Paris. This pendulum, designed by French physicist Léon Foucault, was an 1851 experiment designed to show the rotation of the Earth. In this case, a 28kg ball is suspended with a 67-metre wire from the middle of the great dome of the Parisian Panthéon.
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Pendulum
The famous Faoucault pendulum at the Panthéon in Paris. This pendulum, designed by French physicist Léon Foucault, was an 1851 experiment designed to show the rotation of the Earth. In this case, a 28kg ball is suspended with a 67-metre wire from the middle of the great dome of the Parisian Panthéon.
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Uploaded on October 13, 2007
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