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Mystery #4Tier 1-2sound vibration resonance

Why does a window buzz and rattle when a heavy lorry rumbles by?

A big lorry rolls slowly down the street and the window in its frame suddenly starts to buzz and rattle, as if something invisible were shaking it. A moment later the lorry has gone and the window falls silent again. Why does that low rumble set the glass rattling?

A delivery lorry driving along a residential street past houses on a damp morning.
Photo: Bob Harvey · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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