Remember Magic 8-Balls? If you ever had one, you probably asked it fun questions, like if your latest crush was into you or which Backstreet Boy you were going to marry (just me?). And then you’d ...

A torsion pendulum can probe a variety of phenomena such as photon spin or gravity, uncover the properties of spider draglines or examine stochastic thermodynamics of driven systems. Here we use such ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, ...

This module expands on the capabilities for teaching using a Pendulum. A pendulum by itself can provide valuable insight into harmonic motion and the relationship between frequency and period. It can ...