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.
Cite
@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