The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation ...

HOUSTON — The Houston Museum of Natural Science is most assuredly a gem, but it's far from hidden. Instead, we're talking about a feature hidden in plain sight: Foucault's Pendulum. Dropped right in ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, ...

THE experiments of Lythgoe 1 on the rotating pendulum show that the latent period of the eye is not directly related to the brightness perception of a viewed object. The latent period seems to be more ...

AN interesting dynamical illustration of the Zeeman effect may be made by fixing a gyroscope so that its axis of rotation is the line of suspension of a pendulum bar so suspended as to be capable of ...