Learn how to make a simple DIY pendulum using a ping pong ball and basic household materials. This step-by-step guide shows ...
Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian approaches! 🕰️🔬 In this video, we explore the motion of a simple pendulum from three different perspectives: the Newtonian approach (using forces and ...
During Foucalt’s life it was already proven that the Earth rotated, thanks to experiments which showed that weights dropped from tall towers fell slightly to one side rather than straight down. This ...
A basic pendulum is a mass at the end of a string that swings back and forth. It seems simple, and it appears in most introductory physics textbooks. But it's not a trivial problem to solve for the ...
At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...