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Team 612 at the team social at the 2006 NASA/VCU Regional. We spent at least 45 minutes staring at the pendulum, waiting for it to knock over a peg, while everyone else was stocking up on Krispy Kremes.
This is at the Science Museum of VA. The pendulum is supposed to show the rotation of the earth- it rotates 9.2 degrees per hour, or 219 per day. Their website (http://www.smv.org/info/foucaultex.htm) says that the pendulum knocks over a peg every 15 minutes. They lie.
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08-03-2006 17:53
mechanicalbrain
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I've been going to VCU for three years now and I LOVE that pendulum. It's amazing how people will sit their for minutes waiting for it to knock over blocks.
08-03-2006 17:59
Greg Ross
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Foucault pendula are fun! Was this, by chance, at the Science Museum at the VCU Regional team social?
08-03-2006 18:00
mechanicalbrain
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Originally Posted by GW (Greg) Ross
Foucault pendula are fun! Was this, by chance, at the Science Museum at the VCU Regional team social?
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08-03-2006 18:09
KenWittlief
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based on the position of the pendulum, it looks like that photo was taken on march 3rd, 2006!
08-03-2006 18:14
Tomasz Bania
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They had the same thing at the Detroit Science Center for the Pep-Rally.
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