1.050 | Fall 2007 | Undergraduate

Engineering Mechanics I

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Sketch of the World Trade Center towers and graph showing velocity profiles.
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Lecture 4 explores the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Here, velocity profiles are shown based on conservation of momentum and free fall. (Figure by MIT OpenCourseWare, adapted from Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm.)
Sketch of the World Trade Center towers and graph showing velocity profiles.