Image:Foucault pendulum plane of swing semi3D.gif
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The precession of the plane of swing of a Foucault pendulum that is located at 30 degrees latitude. At 30 degrees latitude, a full precession cycle takes 2 sidereal days
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Created: 20 march 2007
Author: Cleonis
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- (del) (cur) 21:22, 23 March 2007 . . Cleonis (Talk | contribs) . . 256×256 (65,921 bytes) (New version. Smoothness is increased to the maximum for the file size of 65 KB)
- (del) (rev) 20:57, 20 March 2007 . . Cleonis (Talk | contribs) . . 256×256 (43,087 bytes) ('''Description''': <br/> The precession of the plane of swing of a Foucault pendulum that is located at 30 degrees latitude. At 30 degrees latitude a full precession cycle takes 2 sidereal days. Images generated with [http://www.povray.org POV-ray] ray)
- (del) (rev) 20:35, 11 March 2007 . . Cleonis (Talk | contribs) . . 256×256 (6,655 bytes) ('''Description''': <br/> The orientation of the plane of swing of the Foucault pendulum. This 11 march 2007 version is a preliminary version, to explore the possibilities. Images generated with [http://www.povray.org POV-ray] ray-tracing software. '''Cr)
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