Video: Foucault's Pendulum

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Last year when scientists mounted a pendulum above the South Pole and watched it swing, they were replicating a celebrated demonstration performed in Paris in 1851. Using a steel wire 220 feet long, the French scientist Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault suspended a 62-pound iron ball from the dome of the PanthÃ
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