Wednesday, August 6, 2008

July 31: Pendule de Foucault at Resolute Bay


Prof. René Verreault and Sophie Lamontagne prepare for their experiment in a 15m tower.
inside, a 56kg pendule de Foucault will be positioned for an experiment during the solar eclipse of the next morning, which may be of great interest for physics!
A suivre...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And? My guess: measuring the precession of the pendulum gave unexpected results as the top of the tower was not stable enough to allow a predictable precession.