At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

Check out Dr. Bob Grober on YouTube. I heard the term “harmonic oscillator” a few years ago and was lost until I found out it was simply a pendulum. Understanding how a pendulum works and how we can ...

Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering ...

The answer is yes. Yes, you can get a value of pi using a pendulum. Well, you need a few other things. Of course, this is the experimental part of my previous post on the connection between pi and the ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Remember Magic 8-Balls? If you ever had one, you probably asked it fun questions, like if your latest ...

Nicholas Blackwell and his father went to a hardware store about three years ago seeking parts for a mystery device from the past. They carefully selected wood and other materials to assemble a ...

Once upon a time, you were probably on an elementary school field trip at a science museum or an observatory. Just before lunch, your teacher had the class stand in a circle around an enormous weight ...