{"id":7812,"date":"2011-01-29T08:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2011-01-29T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T13:59:47","slug":"golden-gate-diamond-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7812","title":{"rendered":"Golden Gate Diamond Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buzz Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicscentral.com\/buzz\/blog\/index.cfm?postid=7682570011364820497\">has a post up<\/a> about the physics of the Golden Gate Bridge.  They mention the thermal effects, which <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5814\">I had blogged about<\/a> this past summer.  There is also now a demonstration of the vibrational modes, using a 1\/500 scale model:<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z4oGwg&#8211;KnY?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z4oGwg&#8211;KnY?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a puzzle at the Buzz Blog link<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This quite possibly could be the best business card I have ever seen, because it is not just a cleverly designed graphic, it\u2019s a puzzle: although the diameter of this circle on the card is smaller than that of a quarter, there is a way to get the quarter through the hole. It\u2019s an enigma, get it? Can you figure it out? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a way of solving it which does not involve immersing the quarter in liquid nitrogen.  (or any other thermal solution)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/structural-physics-of-golden-gate.html\">via Zz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzz Blog has a post up about the physics of the Golden Gate Bridge. They mention the thermal effects, which I had blogged about this past summer. There is also now a demonstration of the vibrational modes, using a 1\/500 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7812\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}