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‘World’s largest’ Foucault pendulum

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By Hamish Johnston in Portland, Oregon

Swinging above the heads of thousands of physicists as they rush to the next session is a very large Foucault pendulum. Indeed, Wikipedia suggests that it is the world’s largest.

It’s day two here at the APS March Meeting and I’m off to hear about how electric and magnetic fields can be synthesized for ultracold neutral atoms.

 

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