Fifth-graders in Becky Tobin’s class at Hammond Westside Elementary Montessori conducted a scientific investigation lesson Nov. 9 to determine what factors affect the period of a pendulum. Students ...

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SOME four years since, while arranging a Foucault's pendulum for use in the class-room, it occurred to me to endeavour to obtain a permanent record of the experiment, and as the results were very good ...

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Last week over in Twitter-land, Philip Ball asked an interesting question: I’ve written a fair bit about historical science, and read more than I’ve written, so this question stuck with me, and seems ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

Researchers have succeeded in measuring the gravitational field of a gold sphere, just 2 mm in diameter, using a highly sensitive pendulum - and thus the smallest gravitational force. The experiment ...