The Earth rotates, and where you are changes how you see the universe. We are introduced to Foucault’s pendulum. Moving under the influence of gravity, over the course of a day the pendulum’s ...

In early 2024, the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, witnessed many students eagerly waiting to do a laboratory experiment. What was unusual was that they were in their hostel, not lab. And ...

A physical pendulum undergoes simple harmonic motion when displaced by a small angle. The oscillations are no longer simple harmonic motion when it is released from a large angle. The pendulum's pivot ...

SOME four years since, while arranging a Foucault's pendulum for use in the class-room, it occurred to me to endeavour to obtain a permanent record of the experiment, and as the results were very good ...