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Pulling power ratio for a cable drum at different capacities
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Modern Manufacturing Engineering
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Calculate lateral force/pressure of a body water
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How to Calculate Heat Requirements for a Stagnant Water Jacket System?
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Restrained / unrestrained beam
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How do you run vacuum pumps in series?
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Efficiency of Base Load Power Plants
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A Question of Impact and Damaged Components
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Which fan/pipe combination is the most efficient?
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Calculate Heat Loss from Pipes: Tips & Example Calculation
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Wind loads for circular cross-section lattice structures?
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Collapse of building #7 on 9/11
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Why do extra moment equations not count toward a system of equations?
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Opinions On This 50m Steel Span Bridge Without Supports
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Potentiometer or Closing Valve for Regulating 12V DC Pump Flow?
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Regulatory bodies for manned submersibles in Canada
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Breathing Underwater: A High Schooler's Quest
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How is DWT in container ships achived?
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Confused about the Signal to Noise Ratio
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Practical Fluid Mechanics: inversions & mixing
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Engineer's Delight: Obscure Machines & Power Generation Devices
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Inertia tensor v.s pincipal axes moment of inertia
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How much air flow is required for lifting a wing?
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Pressure and a Manual Valve's Effect on Pressure
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What are benefits of Electricity of nuclear power plant
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How to calculate the force on sliders?
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FEA for Water Tank: Weight & Pressure Analysis
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Strength of Schedule 40 steel pipe
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AC vs DC servo motors in large scale cable robot design
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Structural query on removing a masonry wall and lintels
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About the development of a better battery
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Is Boron Carbide the Key to Shattering Bullets in Armor Design?
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How Can I Make My Winch Spool More Grippy for Lifting?
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Need equipment and ideas for an experiment
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How to choose a pump for a simple irrigation system
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How to ventilate a room with no windows with one inline fan?
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Do you have to be good at hand-drawing for civil engineering?
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How Do Technology and Engineering Differ?
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Understanding how to calculate power from force
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Calculate Tidal Force on Underwater Artwork Sculpture in Philippines
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Vpr statics derivation of beam hinging
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How Do You Calculate Beam Deflection for an I Beam on Lorry Trailers?
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Heat Loss of Hot Air: Get the Facts on Temperature & Insulation
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Can a Vertical Lift Engine Hover With 30 Pounds?
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Refrigerant Storage in Off System: Gas or Liquid?
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Understanding Beam Calculations for Engineers: Solving for Second Moment of Area
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Determination of the frequency of a sampled signal
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Engineering Physics certificate undergraduate in Europe
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What material changes temperature fast?
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How does butane gas flow from a canister to refill a lighter?
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When the COP of refrigerator is greater or less than 1?
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What is the Lightest and Strongest 3D printing material?
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What Are Tolerances on Dimensions with Deviations in DIN 16901?
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Cooling System-What is the main purpose of the Compressor
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Science Addresses Recent increase in MLB Home Runs
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Generator Input and Output Power
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Interview About Writing in Engineering
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Measure the max angle of a 3D pendulum
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Compressed air, heat and pressure?
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Flow Rate of Liquid O2 Cylinder w/ 24 Bar Pressure
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How Are Prescription Lens Blanks and Glasses Frames Manufactured?
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Stronger tubes using internal structure?
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A fascinating fault with my automatic soap dispenser
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Help Determining the Minimum Thickness of a Vacuum Chamber Lid
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Calculating Power for a car, and relating it to the motor curve
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What are optic fibres/cables in simple words?
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Rotordynamics: unbalance loads due to displacement - FEA
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Is the world really better off without hydrogen airships?
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Electromagnetic physical force feedback
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Assistance with practical electromagnetism project
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Temperature drop in an insulated pipe over 12 hours
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Calculating Power Requirements for Blending Granular Materials in a Machine
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Understanding Propane Heater Behavior: Causes and Solutions
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Force-Deformation Equations Application
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Which strain tensor is used by Abaqus?
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Wind Turbine Hydraulic to Electrical Conversion
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Is a diamagnetic levitation engine possible?
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Novel Technology to clean the ocean of plastics
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What Does Capital V Represent in Mass Balance Equations?
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How a helicopter can stand still in the air?
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Why Do Tuning Fork Crystals Have a Negative Parabolic Temperature Coefficient?
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Setting Up a 12V DC Test Stand w/ Controller & Cycle Count
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Can Vacuum-Filled Blimps Revolutionize Air Travel?
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Statically Determinate: Insight into this equation please?
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New regulations on maritime emissions
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Programs for thermodynamics calculations
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Enthelpy of fusion/vaporization/sublimation to a plasma?
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How would you solve the water abundance XPrize?
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Breakage resistance of a Polycarbonate plate with flowed through drill hole
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Cooling Tower Range and Approach Relationship
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Water resistance in a flashlight
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Would cryodesalination be cheaper than current methods?
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Particle Entrainment in a Counter-Current Flow Reactor
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Shear rate in rectangular "channel"
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A problem in Lumerical -- how to define a quantum well's materials and features
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How to Implement Control for an Inverted Pendulum System?
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Help identify this label (electrical/nuclear engineering equipment)
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FAVRE-average: Compressible or just varying density
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Pipe Expansion Loops: Benefits, Features & Usage
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Is the T=2*q*A Formula Valid for Both Open and Closed Thin-Walled Members?
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