July 31: Pendule de Foucault at Resolute Bay
Prof. René Verreault and Sophie Lamontagne prepare for their experiment in a 15m tower.
inside, a 56kg pendule de Foucault will be positioned for an experiment during the solar eclipse of the next morning, which may be of great interest for physics!
A suivre...
posted by Luc Hardy @ 3:13 PM
1 Comments:
At October 6, 2008 2:07 PM ,
avecleventdunord said...
And? My guess: measuring the precession of the pendulum gave unexpected results as the top of the tower was not stable enough to allow a predictable precession.
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