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An Alternative Treatment of the Foucault Pendulum

Classical Physics 2022-07-12 v1 Physics Education

Abstract

A treatment is given of the precession of a Foucault pendulum by means of two successive rotational transformations of coordinate system. The simplicity and accuracy of this approach is emphasized.

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@article{arxiv.2207.04135,
  title  = {An Alternative Treatment of the Foucault Pendulum},
  author = {W. Zimmermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04135},
  year   = {2022}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures