Foucaultpendulum

Foucaultpendulum
Foucault pendulum n.
A simple pendulum suspended from a long wire and set into motion along a meridian. The plane of motion appears to turn clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, demonstrating the axial rotation of the earth.
  [After Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon.]

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