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Course of the pendulum is changed by effect of
the earth's rotation. However, the curvature of the
locus is not visible to the human eye, because the
pendulumn oscillates with much shorter cycle than the
earth's rotation. So, its effect on the pendulum with
a far longer cycle would be much clearer. But
to make a pendulum with a cycle of one day, we would
have to
hang a pendulum from the
moon
let alone the dome of the Pantheon. Instead, let's
use a rotating table in the laboratory, make the
length of a day shorter and experiment with
that. This photo is a shot taken of the locus of a
pendulum on a rotating table with a camera that is
also rotating
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