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← ScienceWhich mechanism causes deviation of a Foucault pendulum's swing plane at differing latitudes on Earth?
A)Coriolis effect arising from non-inertial frames✓
B)Frame dragging from subtle spacetime torsion
C)Lense-Thirring precession within strong gravity
D)Gravitational redshift coupled with inertial resistance
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The pendulum's deviation stems from the Coriolis effect, an apparent force arising because Earth is a rotating, non-inertial reference frame. Therefore, different swing planes occur rather than maintaining a fixed relationship, because the location's latitude interacts with the Coriolis acceleration.
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