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THE NATURAL FREQUENCY OF A RECTANGULAR PLATE WITH FIXED-FREE-FIXED-FREE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS By Tom Irvine Email: tomirvine@ August 3, 2011 Introduction The Rayleigh method is used in this tutorial to determine the fundamental bending frequency. A displacement function is assumed which satisfies the geometric boundary conditions. The geometric conditions are the displacement and slope conditions at the boundaries. The assumed displacement function is substituted into the strain and kinetic energy equations. The Rayleigh method gives a natural frequency that is an upper lim