If you must perform the experiment yourself, rent a van or a semi truck, set up the pendulum in the back of it, get someone else to drive, and once they're driving at a steady speed, start the pendulum swinging. Then have that person make a gentle turn in either direction. As they turn, the Pendulum will keep moving in the direction it was already swinging, so it will start swinging out of alignment with the van's movement.
Not a very sensible task to be fair, is it.
Why not? The materials needed are cheap and readily available and a large, empty parking lot would make an ideal location for the experiment. What's wrong? Are you afraid of performing an actual experiment and learning something?
What do I use in the parking lot? A sky hook?
Hehowlikespie already told you. A car, a van or just about any sort of vehicle big enough to mount a decent sized pendulum in. Seriously, it's not that tough of an experiment to figure out.
I never said it was tough. I just don't see the relevance of it, I really don't.
The relevance is really quite simple. Do you accept that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force? That is, do you accept that if you swing a pendulum, that pendulum will swing in the exact same direction unless something forces it to change direction?
If so, then if you mount a pendulum in a car, or even on a turntable of some sort, then what do you suppose will happen to that pendulum's swing if you drive the car in a circle or spin the turntable?
This is the logic behind Foucault's Pendulum. Ponder that for a while. Or, better yet, give it a try. It might just change your world.
Let's get a grip on this pendulum.
The way I see it is...it should only work if you swing the pendulum at your north and south poles. Obviously I must be wrong...but why am I wrong?
The answer to that should be obvious. Think about it for a minute.
I have thought about it and I can't think why it would work any other way to prove a rotating earth, other than for the experiment to be done at your north and south pole as we are told it is.
If not, just explain simply why I'm wrong.
Imagine you do it at the north pole, and see the effect. Now what happens if you move 1 mile south? Would the effect just disappear? How about 1 foot south, or one inch? A millimeter? Do you really think it would only happen at EXACTLY the north pole?
Think about how a RE'er would. Why do they say it wouldn't work at the equator? Look this stuff up. Learn about their idea. THEN, you are thinking about it well.
Your north and south poles are slightly flattened, we are led to believe. You know, with the earth's so called equator bulge, so you can have all of it. You can have all of the flattened area...BUT... from that point on, your pendulum should not work.
Think of your north and south poles as a big roundabout sat on top of a grassy domed hill. Everything on that roundabout is turning and also , so it the grassy domed hill.
Putting your pendulum on that roundabout, at any point and you would get your Foucault pendulum effect.
Anything off of that roundabout would be pointless, because no buildings are going to ROTATE in the way it's being said.
Now if I'm wrong...explain in simple terms how I'm wrong, because to me, it does not seem right at all.