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This programme looks at the effect that caused the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, the destruction of the Ferrybridge cooling towers and the loss of two Lockheed Electra planes. Understanding and p...reventing this effect involves a number of complicated mathematical processes, including the use of matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
This programme looks at the effect that caused the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, the destruction of the Ferrybridge cooling towers and the loss of two Lockheed Electra planes. Understanding and p...reventing this effect involves a number of complicated mathematical processes, including the use of matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
| Module code and title: | M203, Introduction to pure mathematics |
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| Item code: | M203; 05F |
| First transmission date: | 27-05-1997 |
| Published: | 1997 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:00 |
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| Producer: | Anne Marie Gallen |
| Contributors: | Holt Ashley; Bob Donham; Sam Scorer; Joan Walker |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Aerodynamic; Disasters; Ferrybridge Cooling Towers; Hyperbolic Paraboloid; Lockheed Electra Planes; Non-degenerate quadrics; Tacoma Narrows Bridge; Turbulence; Vibration |
| Master spool number: | DOU9091 |
| Production number: | FOUM560D |
| Videofinder number: | 5388 |
| Available to public: | no |
