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List of Foucault pendulums

List of Foucault pendulums

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This is a list of Foucault pendulums in the world:

Artistic rendition (highly exaggerated) of a Foucault pendulum showing that the Earth is not stationary, but rotates.

Europe

Foucault's Pendulum in the Panthéon, Paris.

Austria

  • Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna
  • St. Ruprecht an der Raab, Styria, erected in 2001 at Hauptplatz, moved 2016 to 10, Untere Hauptstrasse in a slim stainless steel pyramid, partially with glass windows; it is worldwide the first to exist outside a closed building: on the street. – Length 6.5 m, weight 32 kg.[1][2][3]

Belarus

  • Belarus State Pedagogic University,[4] Minsk

Belgium

Bulgaria

  • Public Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium "Nicolaus Copernicus",[6] Varna - Length: 14.4 m

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

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Germany

Hungary

Iceland

  • Orkuveita Reykjavíkur, Reykjavík power distributor, Reykjavík

Italy

Latvia

  • Riga TV Tower - Within proposed renovations of the TV Tower, the intention is to build the world's largest Foucault pendulum with a weight of 500 kg and a length of over 70m. The construction was set to begin in the second half of 2019.[21]

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Moldova

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

  • Moscow Planetarium
  • Novosibirsk Planetarium (14.5 m,[26] 31.7 kg[27])
  • Penza Planetarium[28]
  • Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Petersburg (pendulum length was 98 m; removed in 1990s)
  • Saint Petersburg Planetarium (length: 8 m)
  • Smolensk Planetarium (length: 12 m)[29]
  • Volgograd Planetarium[30]
  • Institute of Geology Komi Sci. Center Ural Div. RAS, Syktyvkar (length: 17 m)[31]
  • Murmansk Regional Universal Scientific Library (length: 21 m; weight: 32 kg)

Serbia

  • State University of Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar (length 17 m, weight 28 kg)
  • Physics Laboratory Center of Technical Science Faculties of the University of Belgrade (length 9 m, weight 30 kg)[32]

Spain

  • Hall of the Faculties of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona - Length: 7 m, weight: 20 kg
  • Parque de las Ciencias,[33] Granada
  • Cosmocaixa Museum, Alcobendas, Madrid
  • Facultad de Física, Universidad de Salamanca
  • CosmoCaixa Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya
  • "Villanueva" Building, National Astronomical Observatory, Madrid
  • Pabellón de la Energía Viva,[34] Seville
  • Casa de las Ciencias,[35] A Coruña - Length: 14 m, weight: 125 kg
  • Museu de les Arts i les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia - Length: 30 m[36]
  • Hall of Faculty of Physics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela

Sweden

  • Xperimenthuset,[37] Lokstallarna, Växjö - Weight: 32 kg
  • Carlsunds utbildningscentrum, Motala, Sweden[38] Weight: 13 kg, Length: 6 m, Theoretical pendulum day: 28h 3 min, Measured pendulum day: 26h 59 min
  • Sandvikens Gymnasieskola, Sandviken Weight: 63 kg, Length: 9 m
  • Fysikaliska Leksaker, Chalmers, Göteborg
  • Ångströmslaboratoriet, Uppsala
  • E.ON corporate office, Malmö. Weight: circa 900 kg[39]

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Science Museum, London

Africa

South Africa

Tunisia

Asia

China

India

Iran

Israel

Japan

Pakistan

Thailand

  • Khonkaen University, Khon Kaen
  • AstroPark, Chiang Mai

Turkey

  • Bilkent University- Faculty of Science, Physics Department, Ankara[56]
  • EGE University, Izmir

North America

Alphabetic by state or province, then place.

Canada

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Mexico

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United States

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Central and South America

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Puerto Rico

Venezuela

Australasia

Australia

  • Foucault pendulum,[101] School of Physics, University of New South Wales
  • Questacon National Science Exhibition, Canberra
  • Gravity Discovery Centre[102] Military Rd, Gingin, Western Australia
  • School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
  • School of Mathematics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria
  • School of Physics, in the foyer of the Darling West building (previously named Bragg building), University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia.
  • Queensland Museum Sciencentre,[103] Brisbane, Queensland
  • School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
  • Rosebank College, Five Dock, New South Wales.

New Zealand

Antarctica


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