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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. Wikipedia
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Has any one noticed the strange interactive thing at the Google.com home page? It's celebrating Leon Foucault's Birthday
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. Wikipedia
Leon Foucault
I just don't understand how or what to do with the interactive game at the home site of google.com
can anyone figure it out?
Imagine a pendulum at the North (or South) Pole. As the pendulum swings the Earth rotates underneath it so that the pendulum appears to be itself rotating. This effect is seen everywhere on Earth, except the Equator, in lesser degrees.