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Making the body of a RC helicopter from balsa wood
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Find Steel Tubing Size for 4000lb Log Ramp - 8' Long
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Refrigeration heat in vs. heat out
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Limiting Deviation: Norms, Symbols & Names
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Steel Strength Chart | A36 Square Tubing Tension Strengths
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Understanding linear stepper motors
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Optics and fluid dynamics simulation software
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How to calculate that shape inside volume?
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Residential Structural Engineering: Beam Calculator for Sawn Lumber
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What's wrong with this picture?
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Flywheel Storage Cost: What is the Average?
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Where Can I Find Simulation Learning Resources for Comsol Multiphysics?
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Is a Corona Flash System Using Fiber Optics and Lens Physics Possible?
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Two parabolas, facing each other
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Assistance with locating a hydraulic flow divider
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Fan total pressure enough or not?
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Thermodynamics of a floating cylinder
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Calculation, design and prototype wheel hub drive
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Read motor datasheet to march demands
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Can LDO Voltage Regulators be driven at max current output?
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Network Enabled Device: Implementing Circuits with ARM Controller
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What Size HSS Beam for 40ft Span, 500 kgs Load
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Welcome Rob! Building Your Loading Ramp
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How Does Pascal's Law Apply When Adding a Water Column to a Sealed Piston?
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Flow rate in a gravity fed water pipeline
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Kilobots self assemble into complex shapes
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Electromagnetic simulators with motion
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When Things Get Made By Committee
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Chilled water loop pressure and velocity
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Calculating Change in Flow for P1 & D1
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An overlooked point in fuel-efficient car driving speed
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Building a Stable Wood Platform w/ 4 Aluminum Pillars
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Calibrating a pressure sensor using water
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DME gas through the regultor problem
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Measuring energy capture of river turbine
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Stabilizing a bubble in a water tunnel
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Using a CNC Machine With a CAD File
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How Can Strain Be Calculated from Force Displacement Data in a Cantilever Beam?
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Physics dilettante needs help with product development
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How to Calculate Safety Factor for Beam Columns?
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Calculate Motor Torque for Running 8 Pulleys off One Motor
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Build an Electromagnet Project to Lift Objects
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Can a Wearable Thrust Propulsion System Revolutionize Road Downhilling?
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Linear motor with permanent magnets. Where is the sticky point?
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How would you design this device?
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Force applied to objects pressed together
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Optimizing Gear Train Simulation with Exponential Acceleration and Braking
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Variation in tube wall temperature as steam condenses to form liquid
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What Are the Functions of a Programmable DSP?
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Help with permanent magnets configuration as a movement source.
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Welded Versus Solid Piece Modal Analysis
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Supercharger - Isentropic charts - Pressure Ratio and temperature
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What's the point of these fins in flourescent lightbulbs?
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Calculating Flow Rate in a Converging Nozzle System
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Linear alignment conveyor design
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Calculating the 'Kicking Out' Force in Toppling Objects
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Solar Glass: How to decide if it's hard enough
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Energy(work) captured in falling water
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Glued Versus Solid Model in Modal Analysis
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Choosing a generator for a wave energy demonstrator
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Bentley Substation - 3D Modelling Issues Help Needed
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Current Measurement of Incident Proton ?
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Formula for deflection of 6061 T6 hollow tube, .
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Formulas to Calculate deflection/bending of Free-Standing Pipe
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Low-energy air conditioning with seawater
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How does exposure time affect motion blur in photography?
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What's the best way for this to work?
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How Is St Venant's Torsion Constant Calculated for Non-Standard Steel Sections?
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How to calculate the energy required to cut a specific material?
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Does Increasing Fan Speed Reduce CPU Cooling Efficiency?
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Costa Concordia Salvage Operation
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Converting metric to imperial (12in/1ft)^3
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Creating 3d coordinates from stereoscopic images
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Double Pipe Heat Exchanger books
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High capacity pneumatic positive displacement pump
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How to determine the max load capcity of a steel square tube
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Pitot Tube & DP Meter Selection for Small Scale Processes
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Explanation for PIDrobust methodology to a layman
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Flow switch integration with piezo alarm
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Mousetrap using only Paper,Rubberband and glue stick
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How Can CFD Predict Airflow and Object Trajectories Around Vehicles?
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How Can I Achieve Uniform Lighting for iPhone Camera Photos?
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What is torque required at wheel
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How Do Stiffener Beads Enhance Metal Link Rigidity?
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Stepper motor increase rpm but keep torque
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Weighing a bowling ball project
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"Scissoring" Monitor Mount - Cantilever Tipping Point
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Discrete fourier transform data of 2 different sampling frequencies
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How can I analyze the stresses in a closed ring girder?
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Is there a way to stop the flow of water on this water clock?
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Can an immersion heater reach 600 degrees Fahrenheit in a closed cylinder?
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Completely dissolving a gas into a liquid
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Heat exchange: Water to water through jacketed pipe
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Can a bio-fuel based energy be future houses?
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How high can you push water vapor from solarthermal desalination?
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Why don't dishwasher door seals stop suds?
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How Do Pressure Differences Affect Centrifugal Fan Performance?
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Mechanics of electric motor to drive shaft by chain drive
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VLSI Test Circuit: Fault Models & Examples Explained
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Is Gasification More Thermodynamically Efficient Than Direct Combustion?
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