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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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| Source | Images generated with POV-ray ray-tracing software. |
| 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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| current | 00:00, 8 September 2018 | | 256 × 256 (64 KB) | OgreBot | (BOT): Reverting to most recent version before archival |
| 00:00, 8 September 2018 |  | 256 × 256 (42 KB) | OgreBot | (BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2007-03-20 20:57:06 by Cleonis | |
| 00:00, 8 September 2018 |  | 256 × 256 (6 KB) | OgreBot | (BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2007-03-11 20:35:18 by Cleonis | |
| 05:41, 7 September 2018 |  | 256 × 256 (64 KB) | Ranjithsiji | Transferred from en.wikipedia via #commonshelper |
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