Geometry and the Foucault Pendulum

DOI10.2307/2974765MaRDI QIDQ4855779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John Oprea

Publication date 15 August 1996

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2974765

zbMATH Keywords

holonomyFoucault pendulumgeometry of the sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Dynamics of a system of particles, including celestial mechanics (70F99)

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