Some molecules and ions cannot be described using a single Lewis structure. This is because of resonance, the bonding in molecules and ions that result in more than one Lewis structure. Resonance is a feature of the valence-bond theory. In the...

Anyone who has watched a child swinging on a playground swing has witnessed a vibrating system in resonance. The phenomenon of resonance appears often in everyday life; another example is the vibration of the body panels of a car containing a loud car...

If a musical instrument or human voice of a certain pitch produces a musical note, it can cause a nearby violin or piano string of the same pitch to begin to vibrate. This phenomenon is an example of resonance. Many objects have a "natural" frequency...

n. 1. The physical phenomenon in which some body which is capable of vibration prefers to vibrate at certain frequencies rather than others, thereby favouring and enhancing those frequencies while suppressing others. The formants of speech represent...

In physics, resonance is the phenomenon of producing large amplitude of vibrations by a small periodic driving force. It is the tendency of a system to oscillate at maximum amplitude at a certain frequency. This frequency is known as the system's...

Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee. Resonant Leadership. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005, 286 pages, $25.95. This volume is a follow-on to the highly successful Primal Leadership (Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee, 2002). Writing without Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee follow in the footsteps laid...

Expressions like "being on the same wave length," "getting good vibes," or "being in sync" with a friend or associate are attempts to describe the experience many of us have had of feeling comfortable and able to communicate easily with someone, even a...

A "leap backward" for feminism, the White House spokesman calls it. Nothing of the sort, feminists reply. Mean-spirited, say some. Perfectly appropriate, say others.However one interprets Sen. Barbara Boxer's remark last week to Condoleezza Rice that the secretary of state, single and childless, doesn't have...

O.K., here’s a quick Choose Your Own Adventure to test your political savvy. You’re the President of the United States, it’s September, and over in Iraq, various gangs of thugs are driving around murdering and terrorizing a certain community, which has, naturally, created some militia...

The following is a formal lab report regarding the resonances of sound waves.