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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
• Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, is home to a Foucault pendulum.
• The pendulum consists of a weighted ball that swings at the end of a roughly 7-meter-long cable.
• Like all Foucault pendulums, it dangles from a fixed point that ensures the swing path of the pendulum doesn't change.
• To an observer, the swing path of a Foucault pendulum appears to change over time because Earth rotates beneath it.
• Foucault pendulums are used as a simple way to provide evidence of Earth's rotation.
The student wants to explain how a Foucault pendulum provides evidence of Earth's rotation. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A Foucault pendulum, which consists of a weighted ball at the end of a long cable, provides evidence of Earth's rotation.
A
In Barcelona, Spain, a Foucault pendulum at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona provides evidence of Earth's rotation.
B
The Foucault pendulum at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, swings on an unchanging path, but Earth rotates beneath it.
C
Though it swings on an unchanging path, a Foucault pendulum appears to change its swing path over time because Earth rotates beneath it.
D