Re: [Phys-L] astronomy activities

[bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

Another detailed instruction of “high quality” pendulum in here:   https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Americans-Amateur-Scientist-Science/dp/0970347626  


bc   visited the Panthéon where Léon second denonstrated his pendulum (across the courtyard from where he obtained a copy of his mother’s mariage certifitate [the 5th mayor’s office]);  then an original version in the Muséé des arts et Métiers.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_des_Arts_et_Métiers  

> On 2019/May/29, at 08:48, Strickert, Rick <rstrickert@signaturescience.com> wrote:
>
> How about building and demonstrating a Foucault pendulum to show the effect of Earth's rotation on its axis?  Here are some links about making a Foucault pendulum:
> "School Foucault pendulum"  (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266563268_School_Foucault_pendulum)
> "A Foucault’s pendulum design" (http://www.foucaultpendulum.nl/Foucault/Theory-files/Salva.pdf)
> Phys-L has had other links on Foucault's pendulum (https://www.phys-l.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=Foucault+Pendulum).
>
> Rick Strickert


much cut