Close on the heels of a doodle to commemorate Bharat Ratna MS Subbulakshmi’s birthday, Google has celebrated the birthday of French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault with a fun, interactive doodle. Foucault is best known for inventing a pendulum that ended up demonstrating how the earth rotates. The interactive doodle has a couple of slider controls that help users replicate changes in the earth’s rotation trajectory over time and like Foucault’s pendulum. The pendulum in the doodle goes about knocking down pins placed at various positions as time elapses and earth rotates.
Foucault was born in Paris in 1819 to a publisher and went on to study medicine, eventually turning to physics instead. This change was attributed to a sudden fear of blood that he had developed. As a physicist, he went on to assist and collaborate with Alfred Donne and Hippolyte Fizeau.Then, in 1850, he conducted an experiment that proved that light travels slower through water than through air. This was though to be as “driving the last nail in the coffin” of Newton’s corpuscle theory of light.Foucault went on to demonstrate his pendulum in 1851. He suspended a heavy iron ball from a wire and used the motion of the ball to prove that Earth rotates on its axis. The pendulum in the doodle is a copy of Foucault’s Pendulum in the Panthéon, Paris. Foucault died of multiple sclerosis on February 11, 1868 at the young age of 48.The Foucault Pendulum doodle follows a static, well-designed one to honour Carnatic vocalist MS Subbulakshmi on what would have been her 97th birthday. The minimalistic design doodle was missing her charming voice but was well detailed and looked soothing with its pastel shades.
The interactive doodle to celebrate Foucault's birthday
Foucault was born in Paris in 1819 to a publisher and went on to study medicine, eventually turning to physics instead. This change was attributed to a sudden fear of blood that he had developed. As a physicist, he went on to assist and collaborate with Alfred Donne and Hippolyte Fizeau.Then, in 1850, he conducted an experiment that proved that light travels slower through water than through air. This was though to be as “driving the last nail in the coffin” of Newton’s corpuscle theory of light.Foucault went on to demonstrate his pendulum in 1851. He suspended a heavy iron ball from a wire and used the motion of the ball to prove that Earth rotates on its axis. The pendulum in the doodle is a copy of Foucault’s Pendulum in the Panthéon, Paris. Foucault died of multiple sclerosis on February 11, 1868 at the young age of 48.The Foucault Pendulum doodle follows a static, well-designed one to honour Carnatic vocalist MS Subbulakshmi on what would have been her 97th birthday. The minimalistic design doodle was missing her charming voice but was well detailed and looked soothing with its pastel shades.
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