Re: Foucault Pendulum

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@nau.edu>]

> A colleague has had some difficulty locating articles related to the
> Foucault pendulum and its construction.  Anybody out there have any quick
> references handy?
>
> Muchas gracias!
>
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> Van E. Neie                                     ven@physics.purdue.edu
Van,

18 refs from AJP and TPT on the database at
http://www.phy.nau.edu/~danmac/AAPTDB/index.html
searching on the phrase 
Foucault;pendulum

The best ones LOOK like (no, I haven't read any of them yet):

Phys. Teach., Vol. 21, No. 7, October 1983 Pages 477 - 478
A very short, portable foucault pendulum
Richard B. Minnix
D. Rae Carpenter,Jr.
Department of Physics, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia 24450

Phys. Teach., Vol. 19, No. 6, September 1981 Pages 421 - 423
A short Foucault pendulum for corridor display
Byron E. Leonard
The School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri 65726

Phys. Teach., Vol. 19, No. 2, February 1981 Pages 134 - 134
A sustained demonstration foucault pendulum
Scott McClatchey
Neal Flint
James H. Kraakevik
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois 60187

Am. J. Phys., Vol. 48, No. 5, May 1980 Pages 419 - 420
Portable, continuously operating Foucault pendulum
Haym Kruglak
Rene Pittet
Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008

Am. J. Phys., Vol. 46, No. 4, April 1978 Pages 438 - 440
A short Foucault pendulum for a hallway exhibit
Haym Kruglak
Larry Oppliger
Rene Pittet
Stanley Steele
Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001

Am. J. Phys., Vol. 63, No. 1, January 1995 Pages 33-39
Foucault pendulum ``wall clock''
H. Richard Crane
Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
(Received 23 June 1994; accepted for publication 25 June 1994) 

Phys. Teach., Vol. 28, No. 6, September 1990 Pages 362 - 362 
Speeding up the Foucault pendulum 
Walter E. Mitchell,Jr. 
Ohio University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 

Phys. Teach., Vol. 28, No. 5, May 1990 Pages 264 - 269 
The Foucault pendulum as a murder weapon and a physicist's delight 
H. Richard Crane 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 

Am. J. Phys., Vol. 54, No. 8, August 1986 Pages 759 - 761
A modified Foucault pendulum for a corridor exhibit
E. C. Reynhardt
T. A. van der Walt
L. Soskolsky
Department of Physics, University of South Africa, P. O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

best regards,

Dan M