Question: Do taller buildings fall quicker that shorter buildings when shaken?
Hypothesis: The shorter buildings will need more shaking than the taller buildings to fall.
Conclusion: My hypothesis was correct. Shorter buildings need more displacement to make them fall. In my experiment, displacement is the number of inches I moved the shake table before letting it go. As the building gets taller, it takes less displacement to make it fall, up to a point. The smaller building broke immediately after the displacement and they broke at the bottom. The taller buildings needed less displacement to fall and they swayed a bit and bent and broke. When we moved the buildings to the corner, it took less displacement to fall because they got more movement on the corner.
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