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		lrc on April 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanic... I'm so glad it was helpful. We have some Jupyter notebooks, e.g. https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils/blob/master/j... One on the Foucault pendulum sounds like it would make a nice addition. Perhaps it could be done in a way that wouldn't spoil the exercise.

ja-85 on April 28, 2019 [–]

I agree, the Foucault example would make a good Juypter demonstration. Showing the pendulum in 3D with a 2D projection (like a Spirograph) of the motion on the ground would be especially nice, as in:

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FoucaultsPendulum/

This might be possible in a Jupyter notebook with WebGL.

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