Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) Billah and Scanlan (1991) reported that in fact, many physics textbooks (for example Resnick et al. and Tipler et al.) wrongly explain that the cause of the failure of the Tacoma Narrows bridge was externally forced mechanical resonance. Resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate at larger amplitudes at certain frequencies, known as the system's natural frequencies. At these frequencies, even relatively small periodic driving forces can produce large amplitude vibrations, because the system stores energy. For example, a child using a swing realizes that if the pushes are properly timed, the swing can move with a very
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others on 7" and 12" vinyl, with artwork modified from the cover used for "Ask". The single cover depicts actress Yootha Joyce in a still from the 1965 film "Catch Us If You Can". The same photograph had been used on the 1986 single "Ask". 7": ROCK AND ROLLING TO THE TOP/A PRECISE DIAMOND CUT 12": NO GIRL LIKE JAGUAR ROSE/BUSY TRAIN TO THE LOKOMOTION Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths. Recorded in Autumn 1985, it was first released on their third studio album "The