#planetology Definition and 1 Threads

  1. Simon F

    Graduate Could the Foucault precession be an incomplete forcing?

    The standard explanation of the Foucault pendulum is purely kinematic: the plane of oscillation stays fixed in inertial space while the planet rotates beneath it. But Norman Phillips (2000, 2001) showed that real forces — the horizontal component of Newtonian gravitation and centrifugal...