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About Foucault Pendulums

Find out everything from how Foucault invented the pendulum to why they prove the earth rotates. Very well presented.

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http://www.calacademy.org/products/pendulum/page1.htm

The simple pendulum

Excellent animations proving assorted points about the simple harmonic motion approximation for pendulums.

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http://www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos/Pendulum/Pendula.html

Coupled Resonant Pendulums

A simple experiment showing how two swinging pendulums trade energy.

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/coupled_resonant_pendlm/index.html

Hunkin's Experiment - Pendulums

Two experiments to involving pendulums.

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http://www.hunkinsexperiments.com/pages/pendulums.htm

Pendulum

Simple Pendulum simulator. Users can vary amplitude, mass, length and gravity of the system to see how it changes the time it takes the pendulum to swing (period).

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http://www.msu.edu/user/brechtjo/physics/pendulum/pendulum.html

How Pendulum Clocks Work

A brief description of how Pendulum Clocks work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com. Nice experiment to show how to make and improve pendulum clocks.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/clock.htm