Bridges: resonance, oscillation, vibration
- Aerodynamic Design of Highway StructuresWinter 1996, v. 59, no.3 article by Dryver R. Huston and Harold R. Bosch in Public Roads. a publication of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
- Bridge Resonance: Story of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge 1938-1940)
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Link to a YouTube video which includes black & white, and color footage - Bridge That's Blowing in the Wind (Volga)An article about the Volga Bridge from the Daily Mail, 25th May 2010
- Theoretical mechanics: Crowd Synchrony on the Millennium BridgeArticle from Nature, 11/3/2005, Vol. 438 Issue 7064, p43-44
- Explaining Why The Millennium Bridge WobbledCornell University. "Explaining Why The Millennium Bridge Wobbled." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 3 November 2005.
. - First Tacoma Narrows Bridge: A Brief History of Galloping GertieAlbert F. Gunns, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly , Vol. 72, No. 4 (Oct., 1981), pp. 162-169
- London Millenium Bridge Opening
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Youtube video explaining the "sway" of the Millennium Bridge - Mitigation of Wind-Induced Vibration of Stay Cables: Numerical Simulations and Evaluations CHAPTER 4: FREE-VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF STAY CABLE SYSTEMS WITH CROSSTIESOffice of Research, Development, and Technology, Office of Infrastructure, RDT Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-14-049 Date: August 2014
- Periodically fighting shake, rattle and rollM. Brun, A.B. Movchan, I.S. Jones
- Resonance (vibration)An Encyclopedia Britannica resource
- Resonance, Tacoma Narrows bridge failure, and undergraduate physics textbooksA link to an article by Yusuf Billah and Bob Scanlan that was published in the (Am. J. Phys. 59 (2), February 1991)
- Rock-and-Roll Bridge (Tacoma Narrows)A Jan. 30, 1999 Science News online article by Ivars Peterson
- Suspension Footbridge Resonance Induced by MarchingBy Tom Irvine
- Swaying Bridge - Volga River Bridge
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Russian footage of the Volga River bridge - Swiss and Polish researchers stop long bridge in Russia from wavingScience & Scholarship in Poland, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland
- Tacoma Narrows BridgeAn Encyclopedia Britannica resource
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge history - Bridge - Lessons from failureA Washington State Dept. of Transportation resource
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (Color film)
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- TechBrief: Wind Induced Vibration of Stay CablesAn U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration resource
- Twin Views of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse Teacher's GuideA guide published and distributed by the American Association of Physics Teachers
- Volga Bridge
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Russian footage of the Volga Bridge, reminiscent of the Tacoma Narrows Galloping Gertie footage.
Waves (Sound, Seismic, Electromagnetic, Etc.)
- 'Best of Physics Education' - David Smith: Singing Rods
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- Acoustics and Vibration AnimationsCreated by Dan Russell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Kettering University in Flint, MI
- Cosmic Sound Waves RuleAn article by Eisenstein and Charles L. Bennett ,Physics Today 61, 4, 44 (2008); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2911177
- The Electromagnetic SpectrumA NASA resource
- Interactive Sound Waves AppletA NASA software resource that allows the user to investigate how sound waves travel through the air.
- Introduction to Computer MusicA resource by Prof. Jeffrey Hass, Center for Electronic and Computer Music, School of Music Indiana University
- New Guardrail Causes Golden Gate Bridge to 'Sing' in High WindSound and the Golden Gate Bridge. Golden Gate 'singing' is a side effect of a handrail retrofit designed to make the span more aerodynamic on gusty days. - KPIX CBS SF Bay area
- Physics Classroom - WavesFrom the website: "The Physics Classroom Tutorial is an online physics tutorial written for high school physics students. ... The Physics Classroom tutorial pages were written by Tom Henderson, science teacher at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois.
- Properties of WavesA Scienceaid.co.uk website intended for students
- Relaxation Oscillators and NetworksDeLiang Wang, Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Center for Cognitive Science, Ohio State University ; In J.G. Webster (ed.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Wiley & Sons, vol. 18, pp. 396-405, 1999
- Sine Wave Generation TechniquesNational Semiconductor Application Note 263 March 1981
- Time and Frequency from A to ZA glossary from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- The Unheard Sounds of Hawaiian Volcanoes (streaming video)
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Duration: 49 minutes, 54 seconds Date Created: 2017-01-10 Credit: NPS/Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park & USGS - Hawaiian Volcano Observatory - Wave (Physics)An Encyclopedia Britannica resource
- Wave Motion (Physics)An Encyclopedia Britannica resource
- Waves and Sound with animations and film clips: Physclips.Univ. of New South Wales
Electromagnetic Spectrum - NASA Videos
- Tour of the EMS 01 - Introduction
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- .Tour of the EMS 02 - Radio Waves
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- .Tour of the EMS 07 - X-Rays
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Special Topic: Sound Mirrors
- Brief history of sound mirrorsNational Trust
- Sound Mirrors Acoustic early warning systems, spectacular remnants of a dead-end technology on the British coast© Andrew Grantham. "A forerunner of radar, acoustic mirrors were built on the south and northeast coasts of England between about 1916 and the 1930s. The ‘listening ears’ were intended to provide early warning of incoming enemy aeroplanes and airships about to attack coastal towns. With the development of faster aircraft the sound mirrors became less useful, as an aircraft would be within sight by the time it had been located, and radar finally rendered the mirrors obsolete"--website
Physics of Music
- Physics 1203: Music and AcousticsA Georgia Public Broadcasting resource
- Physics of Musical Sounds - Lecture 1 (Youtube video)
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A lecture by Sarah Bolton, professor of Physics, Williams College. - Physics of Musical Sounds - Lecture 2 (Youtube video)A lecture by Sarah Bolton, professor of Physics, Williams College.
- The Music Instinct: Science and SongA PBS resource
- Ruben's Tube DemoA Youtube video uploaded by Jared Ficklin which demonstrates the classic physics experiment.
- Sounds of Music - MIT VideoA video lecture by Walter Lewin, Professor of Physics, MIT
Solar "Sound"
- Magnetic Field Uses Sound Waves to Ignite Sun's Ring of FireA National Science Foundation resource
- Singing SunA Stanford Solar Center resource
- Solar WindA public education website for some of the NASA instruments studying solar wind (stream of particles coming from the Sun).
- Surface Waves and HelioseismologyNASA/Marshall Solar Physics website