Lecture

Physics: Foucault Pendulum

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This lecture covers the Foucault pendulum experiment, where a 28 kg, 38 cm diameter ball was suspended from a 67 m long wire in the Panthéon in 1851. It demonstrates the Earth's rotation and introduces equations for uniformly accelerated motion and Newton's laws.

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