Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 73
rotation of the supportabout the point of suspension of a pendulum will not affectthe plane in which it is swinging, provided, of course, themass of the bob is sufficiently great not to be appreciablyaffected by the resistance of the air. If, for instance, a pen-dulum be set swinging at the north… … FOUCAULTS PEXDVLUM EXPEEIMEXT. 63 formed a complete counter-clockwise revolution with respectto the plane of the pendulum. If the same experiment wereto be tried at the equator, it is evident that there would beno motion of the earth with respect to the plane of vibration.The rate of rotation co at…
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