Hu had stipulated that endowment income be used to purchase a Foucault pendulum to hang in Sac State’s new science building, whenever it was built. “We bought the pendulum from the California Academy ...

The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more secrets than previously thought, researchers say ...

French Physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-68) installed the first Foucault pendulum in Paris’s Pantheon in 1851. That one, since dismantled, was 200 feet long.

The pendulum’s natural motion is given by the laws of gravity (Newtonian gravity, in this case). But the silicon disc is an excellent mirror: it can be pushed around by light.

Readers were curious about pendulum saws, laser tweezers and more Your letters and comments on the April 28, 2018 and May 12, 2018 issue of Science News By Science News Staff June 12, 2018 at 7:00 am ...

The original, called the Houfeng Didong Yi, was, according to Chinese lore, invented in 132 AD by the famous Chinese polymath Zhang Heng. This is widely considered the world’s first dedicated ...

Those were the types of questions I tried to answer as I used a robot to perform an inverted pendulum project for my winter quarter independent project. For those who don’t know what an inverted ...

In this captivating DIY tutorial, you'll learn how to create mesmerizing pendulum waves that captivate the eye with their harmonious motion. Discover the science behind this amazing wave effect as we ...

Women have earned 57% of all bachelor’s degrees and half of all science and engineering degrees since the 1990s, but they tend to lean more toward life sciences, according to the National ...

Pendulum love, science class gender gaps, musical mind mirrors, and unparticle physics News from the American Physical Society Peer-Reviewed Publication American Physical Society ...