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When a troop crosses a suspension bridge, the soldiers are asked to break steps. Explain the reason.
When a troop crosses a suspension bridge, the soldiers are asked to break their steps. Why?
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Solution
When a troop crosses a suspension bridge, the soldiers are asked to break steps. The reason is that when soldiers march in steps, all the separate periodic forces exerted by them are in same phase and therefore forced vibrations of a particular frequency are produced in the bridge. Now, if the natural frequency of the bridge happens to be equal to the frequency of the steps, the bridge will vibrate with large amplitude due to resonance and suspension bridge could crumble.
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