For this 1S1P report you will first have to go to a Smithsonian Institution site that discusses the Foucault Pendulum.  Read the short article there and then, in your report, explain who invented or constucted the first Foucault Pendulum, what it demonstrates or attempts to prove, and how or why it works.

Then travel to a 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments site.  You'll find that the Foucault Pendulum in #10 on the list.  You should report briefly on one or two of the other experiments that are on the list and relate the material that we have been covering recently in NATS 101.

You are free to go to other sites to learn more about any of the topics in your report.  If you use another web site you should list it in your report.

Your report should be double spaced and is limited to one side of one page.  Your report will be due at the beginning of class on Wed., Apr. 19.  You can earn up to 8 pts on this assignment.