The original in Paris, weighing 62 pounds, rotated clockwise at a rate of 11º per hour, or with a period of about 32 hours per complete rotation.
The original in Paris, weighing 62 pounds, rotated clockwise at a rate of 11º per hour, or with a period of about 32 hours per complete rotation. At the Equator it does not rotate. In the Southern Hemisphere, rotation is counterclockwise. Suspended from the ceiling of the Panthéon by a French physicist, its perpendicular plane of swing is not confined to a particular direction and rotates in relation to the Earth's surface. FTP, identify this experiment, also the title of an Umberto Eco novel.
The original in Paris, weighing 62 pounds, rotated clockwise at a rate of 11º per hour, or with a period of about 32 hours per complete rotation.
{Foucault’s pendulum}