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Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez awarded 2019 SPS Chapter Research Award

OCT 01, 2019
Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez awarded 2019 SPS Chapter Research Award

Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez awarded 2019 SPS Chapter Research Award

Zone and Chapter: Universidad Autonoma De Ciudad Juarez

Project

Project Name: Foucault Pendulum

Project Leaders: Julio Lopez Ibarra

Chapter Advisors: Sergio Flores

Project Description: Physics students from the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juárez present a proposal to design and build an interactive Foucault Pendulum based on a real time traking-system. Motivations behind the proposal are: Earth’s rotation properties in a science museum, development teaching tools of Classical Mechanics and valuable scientific skills.

Project Media:

Project Proposal (.pdf, 537 kb) Interim Report (.pdf, 1 mb) Final Report (.pdf, 466 kb)