Google's latest doodle marks what would have been the 194th birthday of Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, the French physicist who used a simple pendulum to prove that the Earth rotates in space. But ...

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made ...

The classification required a very delicate measurement of a difference between the two experiments of exactly half a period of oscillation of a single pendulum after 400 full oscillations that ...

As of now, the mobile app contains three experiments which are simple pendulum, spring constant and screw gauge while the desktop version for Macs and Windows has a more comprehensive list ...

SOME four years since, while arranging a Foucault's pendulum for use in the class-room, it occurred to me to endeavour to obtain a permanent record of the experiment, and as the results were very ...

Attach a mass or two using screws and wingnuts and repeat the experiment. Change the pendulum pivot position and repeat the experiment. Show using a stopwatch that when the assumption of small ...

LEON FOUCAULT, the author, of the beautiful experiment relative to the movement of the earth, has addressed the following interesting letter to the Journal des Debats from which we translate it ...

Alexander J. Hahn, The Pendulum Swings Again: A Mathematical Reassessment of Galileo's Experiments with Inclined Planes, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 56, No. 4 (June 2002), pp. 339-361 ...