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Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, is a simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. While it had long been known that the Earth rotated, the introduction of the Foucault pendulum in 1851 was the first simple proof of the rotation in an easy-to-see experiment. Today, Foucault pendulums are popular displays in science museums and universities. This one is shown in the Musée des Arts et Métiers of Paris, espacially in the former St-Martin church which has been turned into a wonderful exhibition hall.
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I set up a pendulum with a strobing bike light and the took 3 pictures of 2 second duration (they were stacked in the camera).
The light strobes at around 2 or 3 per second and it can be seen that the pendulum swings through a similar distance at each length but the longer the pendulum, the more time it takes.
#4. Maths in nature for ANSH 105
#31 Long Exposure for 52 in 2020 challenge
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I have a nifty pendulum that makes patterns in crushed glass in my office. Yesterday evening it looked just gorgeous at golden hour. I tried to capture that moment here.
"Pendulum chairs"
Taken by Ian Rapayrapay
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(Work in progress ) I have made a new avatar for SynchroniCity project (reloaded).
Nouvel avatar pour le projet SynchroniCity que je relance, après plusieurs mois d'arrêt, suite au déménagement de AIRE.
Hanging pendulum scratches its way through a pool of sand leaving in its wake static waves constantly overwritten by the next stroke...
Vancouver, BC Canada
Gastown is a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside. Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks), Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was Granville, B.I. ("Burrard Inlet"). The official boundary does not include most of Hastings Street except for the Woodward's and Dominion Buildings, and stretches east past Columbia St., to the laneway running parallel to the west side of Main Street.
Gastown is a mix of "hip" contemporary fashion and interior furnishing boutiques, tourist-oriented businesses (generally restricted to Water Street), restaurants, nightclubs, poverty and newly upscale housing. In addition, there are law firms, architects and other professional offices, as well as computer and internet businesses, art galleries, music and art studios, and acting and film schools.
The Gastown Steam Clock:
Gastown's most famous (though nowhere near oldest) landmark is the steam-powered clock on the corner of Cambie and Water Street. It was built in 1977 to cover a steam grate, part of Vancouver's distributed steam heating system, as a way to harness the steam and to prevent street people from sleeping on the spot in cold weather. Its original design was faulty and it had to be powered by electricity after a breakdown. The steam mechanism was completely restored with the financial support of local businesses as it had become a major tourist attraction, and is promoted as a heritage feature although it is of modern invention.
The steam used is low pressure downtown-wide steam heating network (from a plant adjacent to the Georgia Viaduct) that powers a miniature steam engine in its base, in turn driving a chain lift. The chain lift moves steel balls upward, where they are unloaded and roll to a descending chain. The weight of the balls on the descending chain drives a conventional pendulum clock escapement, geared to the hands on the four faces. The steam also powers the clock's sound production, with whistles being used instead of bells to produce the Westminster "chime" and to signal the time.
In October 2014 the clock was temporarily removed for major repairs by its original builder, and should have been reinstalled by January 2015.
The Gastown Steam Clock appears on the cover of the 2011 Nickelback album Here and Now and is also featured in a scene from the 1991 Chuck Norris action film The Hitman.
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My family were actually riding this, one of the last photos I took this day at Flamingo Land - which is a mix of zoo and theme park. The giant pendulum begins to swing and also spin around as it does so ! North Yorkshire, UK. taken just before the sun set. autumn 2016.
Table for Pendulum, made entirely by hand with mixed media.
Base prepared to decoupage with paper, each sector was subdivided to receive a letter in thick cardboard mm1 then decorated by hand with gold paint by original design on natural wood.
The center of the board is set by a decorative cardboard antique handly
which represents a clock.
This image symbolizes the flow of time and the ability of the consultant to "stop" when you feel ready while consultating the board on the dominating factors in order to avoid natural consequences of suffering.
The edges of the board are hand painted with gold water paint.
This board is conceived for pendulums only. The diameter of the tablet is 25 cm.
It is possible to realize custom design.
Ophioglossum pendulum (Puapua moa, laukahi, adder's tongue)
Habit at Kopiliula, Maui, Hawaii.
July 13, 2004
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Also known as Ophioderma pendulum subsp. falcatum.
Bare light enters
These halls
Time barely passes
The floors
Silent for time
The Doors
Still for air
The mirror
Blind for movement
Time barely passes
Right hall
Shadows marking
Colored cover
Left hall
Light routes
Shall part
Pleasant ways
Hall behind
The pendulum
Through time
Through light
Through darkness
Through dust
The pendulum
The silent becomes loud
The absent becomes present
Each time barely passes
These halls
Hall behind
The pendulum
- Skepticism-
Focault's Pendulum installed at Adam Mickiewicz University Poland, Poznan. Facualty of Physics
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