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by ja-85 2606 days ago
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.