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Why doesn't Foucault's pendulum show Earth's spin at the equator but works at the North/South poles
If you where directly above the North/South pole and set up Foucault's pendulum, why does it show the Earth's spin even though the Earth isn't spinning there? This is also where it takes the shortest ...
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Direction of deflection of Coriolis force on Earth
I'm a bit confused about Coriolis force direction on Earth. The observed deflection is to the right in the northern emisphere and to the left in the southern one.
But what about an observer in the ...
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Coriolis object deflection and conservation of angular momenutum
I'm trying to understan kinematic inertial explanation of the apparent deviation of objects due to fictitious forces in rotating Earth.
Take an object moving from the equator northwards, or ...
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How does Foucault's pendulum work in a place other than the poles?
I find it easy to understand how Foucault's pendulum works at the poles, the pendulum oscillates in a fixed plane and we, along with the earth, rotate around it. So it appears that the pendulum's ...
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