Vortex shedding is a phenomenon relevant to any industry dealing with fluid flow. Vortices shed off solid structures often produce oscillatory forces, which have been suspect in the catastrophic failure of airplanes and bridges alike. To prevent further engineering failures a better understanding of the underlying physics is needed. It has been well established that tandem plates exhibit different flow phenomena than cylinders, yet the study of the flow field around tandem plates is insufficient in providing a reasonable prediction of the Strouhal numbers for given geometry. This study fills the void in providing a review of the relevant literature related to vortex shedding for plates and develops the theory behind vortex shedding for plates through leveraging previous studies and applying a scaling analysis.