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The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy

2011-12-11

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Teach your teacher: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge WASN'T resonance.

And I defer all arguments to the elocution of Profs. Billah and Scanlon: http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf

Vortex shedding video: http://youtu.be/JI0M1gVNhbw?t=2m12s

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