Resonance
Resources
- Broughton suspension bridge (1831)
- Fall of the Broughton suspension bridge, near Manchester. Richard Taylor and Richard Phillips. Philosophical Magazine Series 2. Vol. 9, No. 53 (1831): 384–389. An open access, plain text copy of the entire 1831 volume is also available on the Internet Archive. A similarly free, scanned pdf copy is available on Google Books from the Harvard University Library. Search either object for "Broughton" and you will find the article.
- Tacoma Narrows bridge (1940)
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Extreme history. Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge film collection. University of Washington Libraries.
- American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
- Tacoma narrows bridge collapse, a demonstration. Wallace A. Hilton. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 15 (1977): 189.
- Resonance, Tacoma Narrows bridge failure, and undergraduate physics textbooks. K. Yusuf Billah & Robert H. Scanlan. American Journal of Physics. Vol. 59 (1991): 118.
- Twin Views of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse [pdf]. American Association of Physics Teachers (2000). A user's guide to accompany the DVD.
- A simulation of the Tacoma narrows bridge oscillations. Harriet Slogoff & Bill Berner. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 38 (2000): 442.
- What to say about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to your introductory physics class. Bernard J. Feldman. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 41 (2003): 92.
- The failure of the Tacoma Bridge: A physical model. Daniel Green & William G. Unruh. American Journal of Physics. Vol. 74 (2006): 706.
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge. J. Terrence Klopcic. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 45 (2007): 327.
- The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. Don Olson, Joey Hook, Steve Wolf. Physics Today. Vol. 68 No. 11 (2015): 64. Many physicists and physics students have seen videos of the famous bridge disaster that occurred 75 years ago this month. Some of what they saw was misleading.
- The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse on Film and Video. Don Olson, Joseph Hook, Russell Doescher, and Steven Wolf. The Physics Teacher. Vol.53 (2015): 461.
- YouTube
- Tacoma Bridge collapse. British Pathé.
- Galloping Gertie - The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Washington State Historical Society.
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. Garrett Lenz.
- Tacoma Bridge. Simon Lespérance.
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. Aaron Debbink.
- London Millenium bridge (2000)
- On sync. Steven Strogatz. TED Talks (2004).
- Millenium Bridge. mdepablo. YouTube (2007).
- London Millenium Bridge Opening. stonefever555. YouTube (2007).
- More bridges
- Bridge Resonance. Bob Barrett. YouTube (2007).
- Twisting Bridge Resonance. Bob Barrett. YouTube (2007).
- El puente y la samba. amfeli. YouTube (2007).
- Shattering glass
- Ella Fitzgerald for Memorex (1972). A famous commercial that is surprisingly hard to find online in good condition.
- recordman33. YouTube.
- Cherry Stereo. YouTube.
- Can a Human Voice Really Shatter Glass? MythBusters. Season 3, Episode 1 (2005).
- PsiTechs. YouTube.
- Lexus LFA "Pitch - The Pursuit of Perfection" Ad (2010). Lexus LFA. YouTube.
- Smashing a Glass with Sound – 2015 Christmas Lectures.The Royal Institution. YouTube (2016). Can you smash a wine glass with your voice? Dr. Kevin Fong finds out.
- Can You Break Glass with Your Voice? SciShow. YouTube (2017). It's an old cliche: an opera singer hits a note so high, it breaks a wine glass. It may seem over the top, but with a little science (and an amp), you too can break a glass like the finest soprano!
- Ella Fitzgerald for Memorex (1972). A famous commercial that is surprisingly hard to find online in good condition.
- Video on demand
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)
- Resonance. Why a swaying bridge collapses with a high wind, and why a wine glass shatters with a higher octave.
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)