What is Building: Definition and 918 Discussions

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term building compare the list of nonbuilding structures.
Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the outside (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful).
Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practices has also become an intentional part of the design process of many new buildings and other structures.

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  1. M

    Can't Stop Designing And Building Things

    I am among other things a farmer who is getting older and having a harder time using my hands. My current project is to make fruit picking easier for myself. Over the years I have built homes, designed and built aluminum fishing boats in Alaska, Banjo's and guitars.
  2. geraldoon

    Building a Robotic Vacuum Cleaner

    I need to build a robotic vacuum cleaner that requires minimally 20kPa suction pressure, and is able to clean a 1000sqft area within a single charge of the battery. How do I first calculate the motor specs required to produce that suction pressure and the battery that is able to last the entire...
  3. Simon Peach

    B What is the building block of maths?

    Sets are called the building block of maths, but why? To me sets are a collection of 'things'. Were as numbers are what give the 'things' a meaning. Myself I think that addition is the building block and maybe subtraction, all the other processes, addition and division are only quick ways of...
  4. angrymonks

    Building a physics formula database -- Help please

    I'm looking to compile a large online database of physics formulas*. I have yet to find any comprehensive "physics list" that isn't too domain specific or simply scalable. My attempt will be to build it here newtondb.com following and expanding on pldb.com. It will be built using a treebase...
  5. kamalMKA

    Mechanics for High School Students: Building a Robotic Arm

    TL;DR Summary: Mechanical engineering,robotics,mechnics,dynamics Hi guys , I'm new to mechnics and I want to learn it for building robotic arm , but I find mechanics book topics somewhat difficult for me , what I need to learn to get started as I'm a highschool student with basic level math.
  6. manoj1996

    Trouble building a Buck Converter

    Hii i have design PCB Board and i have solder components i have given input Vin=32V and Vout= 12V but i am getting Vout= 29V. Please check any changes in my schematic.
  7. The Art of DHT

    Is Analog Computing Making a Comeback in AI Research?

    I am researching self-learning AI, and one of the most talked of solutions is returning to analog computing. Analog computing uses real time changes in voltage and frequency to run calculations or perform functions. Does anyone have any experience in building electronic analog computers based on...
  8. Beginner1

    Building a Flying Car from Frisbie Aerodynamic Principles

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  9. N

    Building My Physics Intuition: Seeking Good Simulations

    TL;DR Summary: Seeking good simulations to build my intuition Hi everyone, I am currently teaching myself classical mechanics, and am 3/4 of the way through "Vibrations and Waves," a textbook from 1971 which was used in the MIT course. It's going okay - I feel like I have a decent grasp of...
  10. _maxim_

    Building an Affordable OD600 Sensor for Cell Concentration Measurement

    Hi all, I'd like to make an home-built OD600 sensor for measurement of cell concentration in suspension by Optical Density. There are several spectrophotometers in the market, indeed quite expensive, so I am interested in realizing a cheap device with standard components. Here's an example on...
  11. dlgoff

    Panasonic has announced it will begin building its EV battery

    I moved to Kansas from Arkansas when my father got a job at the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in Desoto Kansas. Now that plant will be making Batteries for electric autos. I wish my dad was still alive to see this.
  12. StellarisVoid

    Help with building a school rocket

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  13. RayDonaldPratt

    Finding the Distance to a Building with Trigonometry

    I'm doing self-study out of a free .PDF book entitled, Trigonometry, by Richard W. Beveridge (©June 18, 2014). The problem I'm interested in is as follows: "A woman standing on a hill sees a building that she knows is 55 feet tall. The angle of depression to the bottom of the building is 27°...
  14. L

    Building an Electric Motorcycle from Scratch

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  15. C

    Building a step by step course for different subjects in mathematics

    Hi, I mostly do Self study and I was wondering how to build up a course ie the.different levels from beginner to advanced in the fields of linear algebra, optimization (rbfs etc), statistics and probability? Suggestions of books with the various levels is welcome. Please help me out in this as...
  16. theycallmevirgo

    Intro text on building a small fluid pressure chamber?

    As stated in the summary, I'd like to design a chamber to store water under pressure. Nothing too powerful - basically at the level of a super soaker, maybe a little higher. The trick is, I want it to be powered and controlled electronically. But, I come from electronics land and know nothing...
  17. TheJP78

    Building a Solar System simulation with python

    Hey'all. First of all, I'm not fluent in English, so forgive me for the spelling mistakes. So, I'm trying to make a simulation of a solar system using python 3.9. It's not complicated, but my teacher wants me to do it using the Basic Verlet method, and that's what is bugging me. He told me do do...
  18. Tesla In Person

    Find the Height of a Building by dropping a ball from the top

    Hi, I have this kinematics question I am struggling with. There is a building from which a ball is dropped and it takes 5 second to reach the ground. Then they say that the same building is on a planet w/o atmosphere where g= 6 m/s^2 . What is the height of the building ? I approached this...
  19. A

    Need Help Building an Audio Amplifier with D2059 Transistors

    Good morning Thank you very much for being part of this forum. I have a concern. I have 4 D2059 transistors and I want to build an audio amplifier, but I don't have enough knowledge of electronics. And I have one more transistor tip117. Can anyone help me by sending a simple circuit diagram how...
  20. L

    Building a small hot air balloon

    Hypothetically how can someone build a small hot air balloon? I want to navigate a 360 camera to the air without needing a drone. Just a balloon, camera, and string to keep it from getting away. Maybe a remote fan to pull it down if string gets loose.
  21. D

    B Build a Time Dilation Clock for 8th Grade Science Project

    A science teacher ask if I could help one of her students build a "Time Dilation Clock" so, at launch the Ships chronometer and the local time are in sync. with a 3g continuous thrust, at some point the time, the time at the launch site will be going twice as fast as the ships chronometer. so...
  22. C

    Power required to climb a 20-m-tall building in 55s

    Summary:: A 90 kg firefighter needs to climb the stairs of a 20-m-tall building while carrying 40kg of gear. How much power does he need to reach the top of the building in 55s. So first the total mass of our system is 130 kg. Using this mass, I found the potential energy the firefighter would...
  23. C

    I Building Quantum GR out of quantum rulers and quantum clocks

    Hi, has anyone tried to build "quantum GR", using the expectation value of |Psi(x)> as a "quantum ruler" and |Psi(t)> as a "quantum clock" to build up the idea of a "quantum metric"?
  24. Strato Incendus

    Writing: Input Wanted Building a Generation Ship: The SFV Exodus

    Alright, time to get started on what I joined this forum for a few days ago: Checking the plausibility of the worldbuilding for my story about a generation ship. Specifically, one with falling birth rates - on its slide into totalitarianism as a result. ;) The main character is a 24-year-old...
  25. R

    I Calculating Power Requirements for a Ski Tow Rope with Friction | 18.9% Incline

    Hi Everyone - I found a previous post here that has helped me size an engine for a ski tow rope but wanted to take that a step further an add friction into the equation. If I followed that problem corrected, the tow rope requires 821W calculated as follows: power = work/time...
  26. unknown5174

    Building a mousetrap car for my engineering class -- Help please

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  27. M

    A Vibrations in building a cavity

    Hello! I am trying to build an optical cavity and I am having some issues with vibrations. I attached below a plot of the acceleration in x, y and z as a function of time, when the accelerometer is placed on the optical plate (x is red, y is green and z is blue; I shifted them upwards for...
  28. paradisePhysicist

    Building a better crankshaft (crank and slider)

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  29. S

    Electrical USA Building Codes: Inside Junction Boxes with Terminals?

    (USA) building codes require that wires that are spliced together must be contained in electrical boxes that are accessible - e.g. you can't splice together wires in an attic. So one often finds electrical boxes for ceiling fans or electrical outlets also serving as junction boxes in the sense...
  30. Feroyn

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    Hi! I am an engineering graduate that took my bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering much too long ago, but I have forgotten a lot of the classical mechanics/mechanics of materials theory that I had learned many years ago. I am building a motorcycle right now, and I want to calculate the...
  31. BiGyElLoWhAt

    Building a Low Power DiY marine bluetooth speaker set

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  32. sodoyle

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  33. F

    Find Z-bus using Z building algorithm using MATLAB code

    I tried to write to the code, but I got confused in line 46 & 59.Every new added bus increases the dimension of the Z matrix, and since we have 3 busses, the dimension of Z should be [3x3]. I formed a for loop in case of adding a new bus to add a new row and new column (increases the...
  34. K

    What are the important things to consider when building a house?

    Summary:: What is the important thing to consider a factor for build a house ? I am a civil engineering student and I have a question about What is the important thing to consider a factor for build a house ?
  35. Rod_trad

    Building a rooftop for workshop

    Hello. I posted this last night and after two people replied commenting on regulations, the thread was closed because it was resolved. It wasn't. So I'll post it again but this time I'll start with a comment about the replies I got on the other thread to which I couldn't answer back. I know...
  36. Rod_trad

    How many steel profiles do I need to support a workshop roof in Santiago, Chile?

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  37. Sophrosyne

    B The building blocks of strings

    I know string theory is already controversial enough and may even be falling out of favor among many physicists. But assuming it is right, I have heard string theorists say that strings are the "fundamental building block" of the universe. How do they make this assertion so confidently...
  38. G

    Building Overhead Hoist: Is 5"x5"x1/4" Wall Sufficient?

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  39. Monsterboy

    Building a discussion forum like PF

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  40. J

    Studying How can I develop a genuine interest in a subject for effective studying?

    How can I make progress in studies? What happens to me is that if my friend gets very good marks then I work very hard to achieve marks but problem is that i can't stay consistent,like today i have given test and i called my friend to know his scores and he told me that he has got scores...
  41. DaveC426913

    Building a Cheap, Portable Water Level Recorder for Seiche Monitoring

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  42. jisbon

    Engineering Building a 2 bit comparator using either....

    So I got this question while coming across, and I would like to seek some advice/tips for these types of questions. 1) Assuming I want to try and build using MUXs, I will get the truth table of both a 2 bit comparator and MUXs. In this case: For comparator: And for MUX: So from what I...
  43. xyz_1965

    MHB Building A and B

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  44. jedishrfu

    Computer Anyone up to the Challenge of Building Enigma

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-student-has-rebuilt-the-machine-that-first-cracked-german-enigma-codes/
  45. johnboyman

    Building a three phase motor -- figuring out how many poles

    Hello. I am building a three phase motor for a science project of mine. I am trying to match my motor with an inverter so i need to count how many poles I have in this motor. The problem is that I have read about this and some people say that this...
  46. P

    Building a DIY multimeter for my school project

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  47. A

    I Building a muon Cherenkov detector

    So far I have an R928 Hamamatsu pmt from ebay, that I believe will be good since it has UV glass, and the majority of the photons should be in the UV range. I also have an old Brandenburg pmt HV power supply but need a BNC connector to use it. I already have a good rigol oscilloscope. Soon I...
  48. H

    I Building a coefficient matrix for a system of equations

    I want to solve the following system of equations ##M_{1} = f_1+f_2+m_1+m_2\ \ ;\ \ M_{7} = f_1+f_2+s_1+s_2\ \ ;\ \ M_{13} = m_1+m_2+s_1+s_2## ##M_{2} = f_1+f_3+m_1+m_3\ \ ;\ \ M_{8} = f_1+f_3+s_1+s_3\ \ ;\ \ M_{14} = m_1+m_3+s_1+s_3## ##M_{3} = f_1+f_4+m_1+m_4\ \ ;\ \ M_{9} = f_1+f_4+s_1+s_4\...
  49. L

    Building jig for a project, trying to think of the ISO standard that would apply

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  50. I

    A Building a better ranking system (probability)

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