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English: 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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Author Cleonis

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2007-03-23 21:22 256×256× (65921 bytes) Cleonis New version. Smoothness is increased to the maximum for the file size of 65 KB
2007-03-20 20:57 256×256× (43087 bytes) Cleonis '''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
2007-03-11 20:35 256×256× (6655 bytes) Cleonis '''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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