Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why.

The Buffalo Museum of Science's impressive 75-foot Foucault pendulum is no longer out of commission, thanks to the efforts of a professor and undergraduate student in UB's Department of Physics. The ...

Engineer Tom Stanton, who also runs a YouTube channel with the same name, has done what we have all thought about but never worked upon – convert the potential energy of the swinging pendulum into ...

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 ...