Outreach https://www.geophysik.lmu.de/en/outreach https://www.geophysik.lmu.de/@@site-logo/kopfbildvorlage_Geophysik_23_03_22.jpg Outreach Foucault pendulum: A Foucault pendulum, or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth; its action is a result of the Coriolis effect.