“Dynamic Response of Multi-Layered Soil Media in the Frequency Domain” by Rebecca Foust

A poem by alum Rebecca Foust (poetry, ’10) appears at Poetry Daily:

Catastrophic failures in buildings during seismic events:
big things fall down and kill us all.

u = horizontal displacement, v = vertical displacement:
shear strength, shear stress, sheer shear.

A & B are arbitrary constants. i is an imaginary number term:
M is still mass and T still time.

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