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Awesome Pendulum

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introvert
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May 19 2011 1:18PM
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SERENGETI_YETI
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Anyone else ever make it to the smithsonian back in the day and see the foucault pendulum?

http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/pendulum.htm


Basically the pendulum swung the same way and as the earth turned it would knock over 24 different pins on the sides as the earth rotated


May 19 2011 1:26PM
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Ski_the_east01
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probably the coolest thing ive ever seen on the internet
May 19 2011 2:13PM
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Crispy.
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That was the tits!
May 19 2011 4:28PM
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zues
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like!
May 19 2011 4:42PM
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DUKES
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i thought this was about PENDULUM i is disappointed

May 19 2011 6:49PM
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skijunkiedtm
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I saw something similar, being a few stories tall in some museum in Philadelphia.
May 19 2011 6:51PM
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FerrisBueller
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yeah this is awesome i did this for my IB Physics ia lab report, its a perfect harmonic relationship between the length of the string, which varys the period and thus changes each ones time slightly and creates an oscillating wave perfect ally.
May 19 2011 6:54PM
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The_Cube
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that was pretty mind blowing
May 19 2011 6:56PM
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I.B
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that's funny we were studying this today muahhahah
May 19 2011 7:04PM
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SeanTom
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repost. kinda
May 19 2011 7:06PM
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Cincher
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me too brah I also thoughtthis was about the band...
May 19 2011 7:25PM
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vauban08
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To satisfy people like me who thought this was about something else...



They did rock Brixton!
May 19 2011 7:33PM
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