Prof. Blackmore, the Course Coordinator, can be reached here:
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Syllabus
(contains HW listing)
- Policy (a must read)
- Sample Exams
- Computational Assignments/Resources
Tacoma Narrows Bridge - Resonance or Not? After taking this course, decide for yourself !
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PBS's
NOVA webpage has a brief discussion and some movies of the actual bridge
collapse. A very nice paper on the theories behind the collapse and recent
questions concerning the role of resonance has been written by James
Koughan of the Univ. of Texas at Austin; this paper was written for
the Undergraduate Engineering Review in 1996.
Even the Eifell Tower in Paris satisfies a Differential Equation !