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Vol. I · The Stillness

The Pendulum

Маятник
Latitude51°N
Plane has turned0.0°
Full circle in30.9 h

A pendulum swings in a fixed plane; the floor beneath it is what turns, carried by the Earth. The plane appears to rotate at fifteen degrees an hour times the sine of the latitude — a full turn in a day at the poles, and never at the equator. Here the motion is sped up so you can watch it happen.