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Natural Sciences · Intermediate
Resonance
Push a swing at just the right moments and it soars. Explore what happens when a system is driven near its natural frequency: why singers can shatter glasses, why a famous London bridge wobbled, how damping tames resonance, how every radio picks out one station from thousands, how a giant pendulum steadies a skyscraper, and how resonance in atoms gives us the greenhouse effect and MRI scanners.
7 lessons~35 min0/7 complete
Start courseHelpful background: Waves & Oscillations
1
Driving Oscillations
Natural frequencies and resonance.
2
Resonance in the World
Bridges and radios.
3
Taming and Using Resonance
Dampers, atoms and medical scanners.