World Pendulum Alliance

Abstract

Some experiments related to Earth's geophysical characteristics need a globally distributed data acquisition, especially those depending on geographic factors such as latitude. The World Pendulum Alliance is a federated initiative of several universities to create a network of "latitude providers" to allow the mapping of local gravity across the globe. In parallel, a dissemination project encompasses training initiatives to educate local agents in view of physics teaching. The World Pendulum experiment is already in production at e-lab, in Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, and the reproduction of 20 primary experiments, located at partner universities, and 120 secondary experiments, to be deployed by partner universities, is foreseen in the next two years.