At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

The Buffalo Museum of Science's impressive 75-foot Foucault pendulum is no longer out of commission, thanks to the efforts of a professor and undergraduate student in UB's Department of Physics. The ...

A team of physicists at Michigan Technological University has set a record for the longest pendulum of all time. The new mark, of around 4,440 feet, surpasses the current record of 75 feet, six inches ...

The 1 kg pendulum is held up to the demonstrator's face and released. Because of conservation of energy, the ball will not swing higher than the height at which it was released (in fact, because ...