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Do I need a 360 servo or stepper motor?
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Help Determining Minimum Thickness of Vacuum Chamber
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How do I normalize angular frequency for circuit optimization?
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Can I Calculate Shear Force and Bending Moment for Partially Loaded Beams?
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How can a battery charge and operate simultaneously?
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Solar Updraft Tower turbine design
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What do you know about loading problem in instrumentation?
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How to determine what electric motor to use. Need guidance please.
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Air pressure and Water pressure question
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Viscous Hydrodynamic Forces on Fixed Offshore Platforms
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Where is the Sound Coming From?
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Tower Clock Gearing and Motor Speed
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Can Permanent Magnets Be Used in a Polar Array as a Magnetic Bearing?
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How to Analyse Skirted Offshore Foundations for Bearing Capacity and Settlement?
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Make Injection Molder: DIY Guide to Automated Processes
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Stress on a Guitar Soundboard when converting to Tailpiece
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Viscous Hydrodynamic Forces and Ship Velocity: An Analysis
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Help needed in prototype/tracking footwork and wrist motion
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The Role of Nonlinear Hydrodynamics in Ship Leaning & Capsizing
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Identifying components used in a system
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Recieved Signal Strenght Indicator (RSSI) with obstacles
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Can you tell/give me any websites about ship hydrodynamics？
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Wind Load Calculator: Gable Roof Envelope Procedure
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How would durable goods look like if were intended to be more durable?
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What Motor do I need for this small clinostat?
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ANSYS,FLUENT CFD, Turbulent flow
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Design the Most Stable Base for a Rectangle
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Downspouts and vertical planters.
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Exactly how do i control the fall of a falling object? (for power generation)
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Inertial navigation over a very small range
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Relating variables: weight, gear ratio, power/torque to make design estimations
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Design Steam Turbine for Solar Energy: Math Help Needed
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My 8 y/o speakers turned to a radio?
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Flying Disk: Can Today's Tech Make it Fly?
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Noise efficiency of fan designs
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What causes droop in control theory?
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UnitDeadLoad.htm What is unit dead load and how does it differ from unit weight?
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Pressure Difference measurement using Pressure Sensors / Transducers
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Trying to compare two different weights during drop test
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How Do I Calculate the Lift Force of a Jack Screw?
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Revolutionize Explosions with a Pressure-Reverse System
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Flowmeter Problems: Investigating a 12l/min Difference
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What Is Soak Back Temperature in Engines?
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Any High School Level Engineering Project Ideas?
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Understanding Analog Signals & AC
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Designing a Strain Gauge Load Cell: Q&A on Force Measurement
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Stress in a hollow beam bent laterallly
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What is the best method for designing a trigger system for a ball launcher?
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Compounding Errors: Combining Accuracies of Fluke Meter & Clamp
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How are Roots Found in a Root Locus?
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Difference between 1D, 2D and 3D Flow
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What state is Iron most magnetic?
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Comsol Question: How Does Laser Irradiation Affect Skin Temperature?
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Solving Shear Stress on a Bar - Mechanics of Materials
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Creating an Archimedes Pump with PVC and 6 Inch Drainage Pipe
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Induction Foil Iron vs. Aluminum
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Understanding how an air flow bench works
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How can I prevent my lever from flexing when in motion?
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Required force to move mass at a certain velocity in water
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What Causes Unusual Vibration Patterns in AC Induction Motors?
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Help in trying to build microcontroller powered Chess Board
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How Does GPS Determine the Best Route?
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Why is a vibration that reaches natural frequency so detrimental?
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Struggling with Modeling an Inline Web Manufacturing System: Can Anyone Help?
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Digital scale > laptop data transfer help?
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Designing a Car Engine Piston: Thermodynamics Question
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Comsol Mechanical Thermal Contact
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Designing a Partially Submerged Foundation: Insights and Solutions
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For Integral and all forum members - semiconductors industries
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Flow, pressure, and pipe diameter?
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Determining correct wiring for an old washing machine motor
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Calc Required Torque & RPM for Automotive App
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What are ways in which a multimeter can "break"?
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Can I use a multimeter on a multimeter?
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Was Nikola Tesla a little crazy or was it just the media?
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Guidance needed in prototype development
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How would you improve this anti-efficient gas system?
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Question on powering a solar cell display with artificial light
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Ideas on keeping water from entering an air inlet valve
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Why Do Semiconductor Industries Invest in High Precision Robotic Arms?
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Optimizing Chemical Injection for Viscous Polymer in Winter Conditions
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Building an Atom Smasher: Cost, Materials, and Design
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Optics - Lens Selection / Geometry
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Help Building Simple Pipe Bend (Experiment)
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Calculating Friction Loss in Ducting for Dust Collection System | 40 HP Motor
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How to design a vertical cylindrical Water tank
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Banking of Roads: Understanding Centrifugal Force
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Electrical Transients Ansys Maxwell/Hfss
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Problem calculating structure strengh
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How do you calculate the minimum film thickness?
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Plano-convex vs Double-convex (fly's eye) cylindrical microlens array
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How to take fire flow conditions into account ?
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Why not Rectangular Mesh for Arbitrary Shape Domain?
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Did Nikola Tesla use much math in his work?
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What does Open Circuit Voltage mean?
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What does hFE mean on a multimeter and what is it exactly for?
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How much pressure is needed to send someone flying
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How many volts can a multimeter read?
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Did Nikola Tesla discover a way to harness free energy?
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Help selecting the proper size PWM for a motor
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