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| Acrylic box contains a city screen of buildings that are on spring and attached to a oscillating floor. | This demonstration consists of a model city in which the buildings are mounted to an oscillating floor by springs. |
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| By cranking the drive wheel, one makes the ground beneath the buildings to oscillate back and forth. This oscillation will translate to the buildings, thus making them oscillate too. The buildings will resonate at different speeds due to the size of the building which demonstration how buildings can react to an Earthquake and how driven mechanical resonances can be done. |
By cranking the drive wheel, the ground beneath the buildings oscillates back and forth. This oscillation then translates to the buildings causing them to resonate at different speeds. This variation in speed is due to the size of the building which demonstrates how buildings react to an earthquake. |
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Earthquake Simulator, 3A60.65
Location:
L.R. Ingersoll Museum of Physics
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Description:
This demonstration consists of a model city in which the buildings are mounted to an oscillating floor by springs.
Cautions, Warnings, or Safety Concerns:
- The handle may break if cranked too hard.
Demonstration:
By cranking the drive wheel, the ground beneath the buildings oscillates back and forth. This oscillation then translates to the buildings causing them to resonate at different speeds. This variation in speed is due to the size of the building which demonstrates how buildings react to an earthquake. References:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake: Wikipedia on Earthquakes]
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