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
Something for the Rest of Us The College at Brockport's student newspaper, "the stylus", also gave a positive review. Bryan Montgomery scored the album at seven out of ten. Despite viewing the album as "merely a shadow to the great albums in the past", he praised the songwriting by pointing out that, "With every new album, it seems that [Rzeznik's] writing becomes stronger, and "Something For the Rest of Us" is an album where the writing is a key piece to what makes the songs sound so good. The sound on the album is truly reminiscent of what the band has become so well-known for in