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

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 (Thomas precession effect).

10 pages, 5 figures, REVTeX

References in corpus (2)

• Relativistic velocity space, Wigner rotation and Thomas precession
• Decays, contact P-wave interactions and hyperfine structure in Omega- exotic atoms

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Subtleties of Invariance, Covariance and Observer Independence
• Foucault precession manifested in a simple system
• Analysis on the Foucault pendulum by De Alembert Principle and Numerical Simulation
• A geometric invariant for the study of planar curves and its application to spiral tip meander