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1E20.19 Foucault Pendulum – Onnes Experiment

In American Journal of Physics, Volume 38, page 173, E.O. Schulz-DuBois discusses that H. Kamerlingh Onnes constructed the very first properly functioning model of the Foucault Pendulum and the degenerate perturbation theory.

 

In The Physics Teacher, Volume 28, page 264, an article discusses a current murder novel and the history of Foucault’s work.

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      • 1A Measurement
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        • 1E10.15 Moving Blackboard
        • 1E10.20 Frames Of Reference Movie
        • 1E10.31 Stick On A Wheel
        • 1E20.10 Foucault Pendulum
        • 1E20.19 Foucault Pendulum – Onnes Experiment
        • 1E20.20 Foucault Pendulum Model on a Rotating Turntable
        • 1E20.20 Pendulum On Rotating Turntable
        • 1E30.11 Draw the Coriolis Curve
        • 1E30.26 Coriolis Dish & TV
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        • 1E30.28 Coriolis Ball On Turntable
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