 | Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (UK: /ʒɒ̃ ˈbɛərnɑːr ˌleɪɒ̃ ˈfuːkoʊ/, US: /ˌʒɒ̃ bɛərˈnɑːr leɪˌɒ̃ fuːˈkoʊ/; French: [ʒɑ̃ bɛʁnaʁ leɔ̃ fuko]; 18 September 1819... 14 KB (1,423 words) - 19:53, 30 March 2024 |
 | The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the... 28 KB (2,925 words) - 22:22, 8 February 2024 |
physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate Earth's rotation, which has symbolic significance within the novel. Some believe that it refers to Michel Foucault, given... 21 KB (2,438 words) - 09:21, 12 April 2024 |
In 1850, Léon Foucault used a rotating mirror to perform a differential measurement of the speed of light in water versus its speed in air. In 1862, he... 26 KB (2,985 words) - 21:51, 29 August 2023 |
 | The Foucault gyroscope was a gyroscope created by French physicist Léon Foucault in 1852, conceived as a follow-up experiment to his pendulum in order... 12 KB (1,487 words) - 19:40, 12 August 2023 |
using a toothed wheel Foucault's measurements of the speed of light, using a rotating mirror Hippolyte Fizeau Léon Foucault This disambiguation page... 353 bytes (79 words) - 11:15, 17 January 2024 |
Foucault may refer to: Foucault (surname) Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist. Three notable objects were named after him: Foucault (crater),... 728 bytes (114 words) - 06:22, 2 October 2023 |
 | Panthéon (section Foucault pendulum) dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's Tempietto. In 1851, Léon Foucault conducted a demonstration of diurnal motion at the Panthéon by suspending... 68 KB (4,450 words) - 15:32, 29 April 2024 |
 | family was devout. Michel is not related to the physicist Léon Foucault. In later life, Foucault revealed very little about his childhood. Describing himself... 135 KB (17,926 words) - 11:31, 12 April 2024 |
 | Gyroscope (section Foucault's gyroscope) the attention of Léon Foucault. In 1852, Foucault used it in an experiment demonstrating the rotation of the Earth. It was Foucault who gave the device... 50 KB (5,902 words) - 17:50, 18 April 2024 |
 | Eddy current (redirect from Foucault current) some of the external flux to avoid the conductor. French physicist Léon Foucault (1819–1868) is credited with having discovered eddy currents. In September... 31 KB (3,532 words) - 09:24, 24 February 2024 |
 | longest Foucault pendulum in Poland (46,5 m), suspended for the popular display of the Earth's rotation. Named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, the... 14 KB (1,381 words) - 00:05, 12 April 2024 |
 | is the working principle behind experiments by Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault. The setup as used by Fizeau consists of a beam of light directed at... 144 KB (15,331 words) - 08:14, 21 April 2024 |
 | in photographic processes. Following suggestions by François Arago, Léon Foucault and Fizeau collaborated in a series of investigations on the interference... 8 KB (786 words) - 16:07, 4 August 2023 |
The first experimental demonstration of this motion was conducted by Léon Foucault. Because Earth orbits the Sun once a year, the sidereal time at any... 4 KB (547 words) - 23:56, 6 March 2023 |
 | Fizeau was able to calculate the speed of light as 313000000 m/s. Léon Foucault carried out an experiment which used rotating mirrors to obtain a value... 51 KB (6,334 words) - 20:17, 13 April 2024 |
pianist and conductor Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist Leon Friedman (legal scholar) (born 1933), American legal scholar Leon Friedman (politician)... 10 KB (1,212 words) - 08:19, 30 April 2024 |
 | directly to the uneven floor. It is named after physicist Léon Foucault, most famous for the Foucault pendulum. Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker, E. A. (1982). NASA... 4 KB (317 words) - 01:58, 26 January 2024 |
 | Pendulum (section 1851: Foucault pendulum) measuring absolute gravitational acceleration. In 1851, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault showed that the plane of oscillation of a pendulum, like a gyroscope... 122 KB (14,432 words) - 11:39, 18 April 2024 |
 | compared to other testing techniques. The Foucault knife-edge test was described in 1858 by French physicist Léon Foucault as a way to measure conic shapes of... 8 KB (996 words) - 21:38, 26 April 2024 |
law of conservation of energy. In 1851, Léon Foucault showed the Earth's rotation with a huge pendulum (Foucault pendulum). There were important advances... 40 KB (4,546 words) - 08:37, 19 March 2024 |
the photomicrography. Léon Foucault was his student and laboratory assistant, and he remained a friend and supporter of Foucault until the latter's death... 3 KB (192 words) - 18:18, 12 October 2023 |
American songwriter Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher Steve Foucault (born 1949), former Major... 604 bytes (108 words) - 19:02, 17 August 2017 |
 | most celebrated test of Earth's rotation is the Foucault pendulum first built by physicist Léon Foucault in 1851, which consisted of a lead-filled brass... 43 KB (4,891 words) - 02:13, 30 April 2024 |
 | probable que c'est un rayonnement invisible à nos yeux, comme le croit M. Léon Foucault, ...." "... this persistent activity ... cannot be due to phosphorescence... 23 KB (2,629 words) - 17:02, 2 February 2024 |
 | mirrors in 1721; the process of silvering glass mirrors introduced by Léon Foucault in 1857; and the adoption of long-lasting aluminized coatings on reflector... 72 KB (9,195 words) - 13:43, 22 February 2024 |
of Venus expeditions and wrote a biography of the French physicist Léon Foucault. Tobin's research on telescopes made by James Short found that Otago... 14 KB (1,329 words) - 20:23, 8 April 2024 |
 | reflecting telescope was introduced by Léon Foucault in 1857, see madehow.com - Inventor Biographies - Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault Biography (1819–1868), and the... 33 KB (3,918 words) - 14:11, 4 March 2024 |
 | several catadioptric lighthouse reflector versions of his Fresnel lens. Léon Foucault developed a catadioptric microscope in 1859 to counteract aberrations... 16 KB (1,863 words) - 20:43, 22 January 2024 |
credited mostly to German physicist August Toepler, though Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invented the method in 1859 that Toepler improved upon. Toepler's original... 6 KB (659 words) - 06:35, 21 April 2024 |