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------------------------------------------------------------------------------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!
==============================================================Van E. Neie ven@physics.purdue.eduVan,
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