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Re: "simple" pendulum

You are absolutely right. Poor imagination on my part.

Leigh Palmer wrote:

I can't construct your case. A simple pendulum is not
possible in a rotating frame because centrifugal force
and gravity are not the only forces which act in that
frame. Because the bob is moving the Coriolis force acts
to push the bob out of the plane it would otherwise stay
in.