When we were studying resonance, we watched the entire episode of mythbusters breaking glass. If you don't have netflix, you can get a short clip here: Mythbusters: Adam Savage on Breaking Glass. At first I watched only the clip with one class and the entire episode with the non-regents class and I learned that the students were able to pick up on a lot more. Our share out of notes is posted here in the "Student Blog" section. If we write our collective notes on the board, then students are able to see the appropriate terms for something that they otherwise might have forgotten. For example, a student asked, "How did they know the frequency?" To which a student responded, "They tapped the glass to find the sound." I added to this by also mentioning the machine that they used, which was called an "Oscilloscope." This further prompted another student to say, "Oh, we used those in a summer program that I was in at Cornell. They used them to see the waves on a screen."
Title: Mythbusters Collection 3, Episode 11: Breaking Glass.
Run Time: 43 minutes, but this episode contains two myths. If you scroll through the second myth, the myth about Breaking Glass is only about 20 minutes.
Closed Captioning: Yes, if streamed through Netflix.
Title: Mythbusters Collection 3, Episode 11: Breaking Glass.
Run Time: 43 minutes, but this episode contains two myths. If you scroll through the second myth, the myth about Breaking Glass is only about 20 minutes.
Closed Captioning: Yes, if streamed through Netflix.
Image credit: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Project
Engineers from Tacoma Narrows Bridge Project working on a model to test in a wind tunnel.
| Lastly, we also saw a video of the famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington. The great thing is that this video has narration according to the times. Most films were silent previous to 1930 and you will notice that although this film was made in 1940, it doesn't have the sounds of the bridge. It only has the narrator voiced over the video. A student asked to see what the bridge looks like now. I found some articles that show what engineering work had to go into the designing of the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Project. You can even get all of the stats from the Washington Department of Transportation (DoT): SR - 16 - Tacoma Narrows Just the Facts. 
Image credit: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Project
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