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Controlling Water Flow for Sterilization and Filtration in a Gravity-Fed System
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Revolutionizing Vehicle Energy Efficiency with Regenerative Shock Absorbers
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Help with water pump calculations
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Systems/processes which create conditional independence?
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Energy Content of Steam: Variation with Pressure
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Limiting the effects of a pivot point? Homemade project
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Kalman filter with mixed frequency
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How to Convert State Equations to a State Transition Matrix for a Kalman Filter?
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Senior Controls Engineer Interview Questions -- Suggestions Please
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Quick-Release Fittings for Wood Supports on Walls
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Constructing a Bending Moment Function Using McCauley's Method
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Help with ANSOFT MAXWELL 3D Magnetic material
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How Can We Calculate Accurate Temperature Drops in an Unstirred Tank?
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Rack and Pinion Calculation help
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Calculating Pressure Distribution in a Nozzle for Abaqus
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Help with density measuring device
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Pumping water up without electricity
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Monitoring a drill acceleration
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Converting Electrical Signals to Optical Signals for Wireless Li-Fi
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Center of gravity/moment of inertia
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How do I mold an elastic part for cheap?
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Transferring Liquid Helium to Another Container
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Aerodynamics -- pitching to find additional aerodynamic resistance
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Container stack height on a ship: Mechanical strength
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How can I remove steam from exhaust gases?
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How Does the Ruler and Hammer Balance Trick Defy Physics?
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Moments of Inertia Explained: Helping Scott Understand Statics
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How can I use 2D airfoil data for calculations in my RC helicopter project?
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Cheap and easy electric generator design
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What is the difference between the scattering BC and PML?
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PM Synchronous motor Id-Iq current control
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Pumpable slurries What concentration?
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Thorium Fission: Overcoming Hurdles to Power
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Maintaining liquid level inside a vessel of boiling liquid
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Why are we not seeing more variable-pitch quadcopters?
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How can i control magnet? on\off, base magnet?
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Software Coder's Stand Designs for a Touch Screen Display and PC: Review Needed!
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Solution to the world's energy problems:
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Viability of closed loop deep geothermal plants?
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Simple Beam Bending - Where am I going wrong?
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Is propeller pitch more related to RPM than aircraft speed?
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PM sychronous motor parameter measurement
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Some help on Compressed Air Energy Storage
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Planar wave expansion cancelling through interference
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VHDL Newbie Stumped by Error 10380
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How can i design a small sized high torque slow speed motor
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Build Pop Can Catapult: 10m High, 15m Far w/ High School Physics
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Feasibility of a jacket that generates heat
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Drive Died (arcing between pins on the PCBA)
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Control design for PWM converter
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What do you call Generation of electricity using waste heat
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Is the mass flow rate in a regenerative vapor power cycle constant?
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How to reduce RH of air from evaporative cooler?
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Max Load Capacity: Calculating Total Torque for Dual Servo Motors
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Harnessing Energy Of Jet Streams---Is It Really Possible?
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Free Body Diagram -- forces on a structure over a balcony wall
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Efficient, carbon neutral fuel for cars
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Help with designing horizontal framework for UDL
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Water Flow & Pressure: The Impact of Water Control Mechanisms on Overflow Time"
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Problems in automotive engineering
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Magnetic field of permanent magnet on ansys and comsol
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Ferrite Rod Geometry for Magnetorquer Design
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Ball Bearing Selection for Wheel Hubs
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Can I draw a helical coil in MAXWELL 3D using PF and ANSYS?
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What happens when a pressurized gas cylinder falls over?
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Can Physics Optimize the Storage of L Beams in a Confined Space?
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How can I make position controlled motor ?
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How Does Fan Descender Mechanics Work for Construction Sites?
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Why AM wave is multiplication of carrier and message signal?
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FEM: How the weak form is related to an inner product
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Horsepower needed to lift 600 lb load, w/8 motors
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How do you get Newtons Squared?
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Unbiased Physical Vapor Deposition
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Need help with soave-redlich-kwong equation.
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Energy project for Universities implementation
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Calculate Water Loss in Broken Pipes: Formula/Equation
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Has the Material Yielded Under Combined Bending and Torsion?
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Need help calculating the heat of a wire wrapped
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How much power does engine cooling system require?
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4 in lift mechanism using a continuous servo?
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Energy from bike riding used to charge phones/laptops
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List of Metals or Alloys With Fatigue Limits?
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Wow, human powered ferris wheel
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Can we achieve practical personal flight with current options?
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Magnetic Gloves for scaling skyscrapers
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When we can say that a waveguide is perfectly matched?
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Needlestick Prevention Survey - High Schoolers Need Input
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Microchannels in a plastic film
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What CAD program for complicated parts?
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Rankine cycle with low pressure condenser
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Where Can I Find Supplies for Building a Human Robotic Suit?
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Four Wheel Drive Optimal Landing Angle
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Discover How to Measure Flowrate Through Varying Tube Diameters
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Is the water pressure equal in a sealed column at the top and bottom?
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What is the mass moment of inertia?
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How to Calculate Minimum Jacket Surface Area for a Double Jacketed Tank?
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PID controller for current control by adjusting the PWM
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On what does the cfm of fan depend?
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How Do I Calculate Floor Loading for My Structure?
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Design of Vapour Compression Refrigeration Cycle
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