Tag: physics
Occidental’s Foucault Pendulum: A unifying symbol of hard sciences
According to physics department chair Professor Daniel Snowden-Ifft, the idea to install a Foucault Pendulum in the Hameetman Science Center was the vision of late Professor George...
Students and faculty across disciplines witness the first planetary defense mission
A crowd gathered in Fowler Hall Sept. 26 to watch the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) execute their first planetary defense test mission. Double...