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  2. List of Foucault pendulums - Wikipedia

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    School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne; School of Mathematics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria; School of Physics, in the foyer of the Darling West building (previously named Bragg building), University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia. Queensland Museum Sciencentre, [107] Brisbane, Queensland

  3. Pendulum (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Pendulum (mathematics), the mathematical principles of a pendulum; Pendulum clock, a kind of clock that uses a pendulum to keep time; Pendulum car, an experimental tilting train; Foucault pendulum, a pendulum that demonstrates the Earth's rotation; Spherical pendulum; Spring pendulum; Conical pendulum

  4. Foucault pendulum - Wikipedia

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    The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area is monitored over an extended period of time, its plane of oscillation appears to change ...

  5. Pendulum - Wikipedia

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    "Simple gravity pendulum" model assumes no friction or air resistance. A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. [1] When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.

  6. Harmonograph - Wikipedia

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    One pendulum moves the pen back and forth along one axis, and the other pendulum moves the drawing surface back and forth along a perpendicular axis. By varying the frequency and phase of the pendulums relative to one another, different patterns are created.

  7. Pendulum (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    A pendulum is a body suspended from a fixed support such that it freely swings back and forth under the influence of gravity. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back towards the equilibrium position.

  8. Spherical pendulum - Wikipedia

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    Spherical pendulum: angles and velocities. In physics, a spherical pendulum is a higher dimensional analogue of the pendulum. It consists of a mass m moving without friction on the surface of a sphere. The only forces acting on the mass are the reaction from the sphere and gravity.

  9. List of Chinese inventions - Wikipedia

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    Pendulum: Han dynasty scientist Zhang Heng created a pendulum in the 1st-century for a seismometer. Its function was to sway and activate one of a series of levers after being disturbed by the tremor of an earthquake. [366] Percussion drilling: Ancient China's principal drilling technique, percussive drilling, was invented during the Han ...