第二章质点运动定律.ppt

* * * * * In the middle of beautiful entrance hall of the Steno Museum you can see a version of the French physicist, Léon Foucaults (1819-68) famous pendulum experiment. With this experiment Foucault in 1851 demonstrated, in a simple and elegant way, that the earth is actually turning on its axis. Thus he con-firmed experimentally a theory having existed for a couple of centuries. Before that it was believed that the entire universe was moving round the earth at rest. Foucaults first laboratory experiment was carried out with a pendulum of 2 metres, and after that he gave an imposing demonstration with a pendulum of 67 metres in the Panthéon in Paris. The pendulum in the Steno Museum is only 11 metres. On the other hand, it is kept going by magnetic impulses from a spool in the floor, enabling it to swing perpetually. * In the middle of beautiful entrance hall of the Steno Museum you can see a version of the French physicist, Léon Foucaults (1819-68) famous pendulum experiment. With this experiment Foucault in 1851 demonstrated, in a simple and elegant way, that the earth is actually turning on its axis. Thus he con-firmed experimentally a theory having existed for a couple of centuries. Before that it was believed that the entire universe was moving round the earth at rest. Foucaults first laboratory experiment was carried out with a pendulum of 2 metres, and after that he gave an imposing demonstration with a pendulum of 67 metres in the Panthéon in Paris. The pendulum in the Steno Museum is only 11 metres. On the other hand, it is kept going by magnetic impulses from a spool in the floor, enabling it to swing perpetually. * In the middle of beautiful entrance hall of the Steno Museum you can see a version of the French physicist, Léon Foucaults (1819-68) famous pendulum experiment. With this experiment Foucault in 1851 demonstrated, in a simple and elegant way, that the earth is actually turning on its axis. Thus he con-firmed experimentally a theory having ex