Miami’s physics department may have gotten a new house last year, but it never really felt like home — until now. Missing was the department’s famed Foucault Pendulum. It couldn’t be moved from Culler ...

The gently moving jewel swaying inside the new Ernest E. Tschannen Science Complex is a Foucault pendulum – shiny and slow-swinging, it is a piece of old-world technology the likes of which have kept ...

Depending on your major, you may have caught it, and you might not have: suspended delicately by a thin wire a burnished bronzed ball roughly the size of a basketball swings slowly back and forth. Its ...

A Foucault pendulum is a simple device for observing the Earth's rotation. While such pendulums have been around for more than 150 years and are a staple of the modern science museum, they are ...

You've probably seen the famous pendulum demonstration—the one where the physics professor puts a bowling ball on a rope, holds it by her head, and lets it go, knowing it won't have enough energy to ...

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