Physics professors love nothing more than dramatically retelling the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse like it's some ancient Sith legend. "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Galloping Gertie? I thought not. It's not a story the civil engineers would tell you." The bridge's spectacular undulating dance of death in 1940 is basically physics porn—a perfect example of resonance frequency gone wild. Engineers built a bridge, wind created periodic force matching the structure's natural frequency, and boom—instant classroom cautionary tale for the next century. Nothing makes a physics professor more gleefully sinister than showing that grainy black-and-white footage while students realize that yes, math can actually kill you.
The Dark Side Of Resonance Frequency
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