PLEASE answer in as much DETAILS as possible. Nikola Tesla, one of the inventors

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PLEASE answer in as much DETAILS as possible.

Nikola Tesla, one of the inventors of radio and an archetypal mad scientist, told a credulous reporter in 1912 the following story about an application of resonance. He built an electric vibrator that fit in his pocket, and attached it to one of the steel beams of a building that was under construction in New York. Although the article in which he was quoted didn’t say so, he presumably claimed to have tuned it to the resonant frequency of the building.

“In a few minutes, I could feel the beam trembling. Gradually the trembling increased in intensity and extended throughout the whole great mass of steel. Finally, the structure began to creak and weave, and the steelworkers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. ... [If] I had kept on ten minutes more, I could have laid that building flat in the street.”

Is this physically plausible?

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this is possible

if you can able to find the fundamental nodes of the building, then using the resonance we can have effect what was given in there

for example you can treat the buiding (pillar) to be uniformlly distrubuted mass and considering as the rod camped at one end, you can find the fundamental nodes of the building.

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