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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by falcolas on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:40AM (#17757755)
On the note of bridge resonance, one can not forget the Tacoma Narrows Bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw
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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by sabas_ge on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:58PM (#17761839)
I was talking to a colleague today and I made that example I remembered from my physics course done on the Halliday-Resnick textbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Physics
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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by m_eiman on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:13PM (#17761468)
If anything, the way that bridge wobbles before collapsing is pretty assuring - it’s unlikely I’d enter a bridge even remotely as unstable!
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