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===== Foucault Pendulum =====

(Lecture: 20 minutes)

    * Simplified treatment of direction of pendulum

[[.:rflecfoucaultnotes|Lecture notes]]

==== Reflections ====

A full treatment of the Foucault pendulum is rather involved, but the
simplified treatment in the [[.:rflecfoucaultnotes|lecture notes]] provides
an elementary explanation of the basic features of this surprising result, as
well as practice solving coupled ODEs.

This derivation pairs well with that for linear motion in the
[[.:rfleceqmo|2-dimensional case]], but if there is only time for one, do this
one instead.

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