From: NFetter <NFetter@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 00:21:20 EST
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
Subject: Foucault Pendulums
Hi Pinholers,
My physics students are familiar with the Foucault pendulum at the Academy of
Sciences, but they want to know if the pendulum makes a traverse of 360
degrees in 24 hours. At the poles the pendulum should traverse 360 degrees. At
the equator does it traverse zero degrees? At latitudes in between is the
rotation somewhere between zero and 360 degrees, depending on the latitude?
Anyone have an answer?
N
eil Fetter