The 350-year-old mystery of why pendulum clocks hanging from the same wall can influence each other and synchronize over time may hold even more secrets than previously thought, researchers say.

Using a few items from around the house you can create a pendulum. Materials Instructions STEP 1: Hang the string from the ceiling. STEP 2: Fill the balloon with water and tie off the balloon so the ...

Fifth-graders in Becky Tobin’s class at Hammond Westside Elementary Montessori conducted a scientific investigation lesson Nov. 9 to determine what factors affect the period of a pendulum. Students ...

A Foucault pendulum, or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Leon Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth; its action is a result of the ...

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