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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse

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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mclp9QmCGs
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Media: Webware
Cost: Free
Subjects: Physics
Types: Visualization or Animation
Description
of resource:
This is a video of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse. In the past (before youtube) only a small clip of this video was available. Now (maybe illegaly?) a much longer version (a few minutes) is available for free. This is a great demonstration of wave properties.
Posted to site: 01/13/2007
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