Foucault Pendulum
Last night in my Dynamics class we solved for the lateral forces acting upon a pendulum.
It was rather interesting. A guy named Foucault accomplished this in the late 1800’s and now the pendulum experiment shares his name.
Read about Foucault Pendulums here.
Ah yes, I think they have several of these inside the Panopticon
Ok, if he already solved it why are they asking you? Is it one of those “let’s-see-if-you-can-live-up-to-this-dead-French-guy” things?