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Rotation of the swing plane of Foucault's pendulum and Thomas spin precession: two sides of one coin

© 2009 Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk and P N Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
, , Citation Mikhail I Krivoruchenko 2009 Phys.-Usp. 52 821 DOI 10.3367/UFNe.0179.200908e.0873

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1 Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Russian Federation State Scientific Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

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  1. Received 30 October 2008
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Abstract

Using elementary geometric tools, we apply essentially the same methods to derive expressions for the rotation angle of the swing plane of Foucault's pendulum and the rotation angle of the spin of a relativistic particle moving in a circular orbit (the Thomas precession effect).

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