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How do you calculate torque and Q for I-beams under torsion?

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Why Won't Humidifiers Raise Lab Humidity?

  • daviddoria
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How do I calculate the stress on a lap fillet weld in bending?

  • Fantastic Fox
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Why Do We Square Errors in Least Squares Regression?

  • likephysics
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I-Beam Sizes: Standard Dimensions in SI Units

  • Fantastic Fox
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Graduate School for Engineering

  • tyro1
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Questions about EE, Meteorology and Nuclear

  • php111
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Where Can I Find a Dummy Book for Writing Firmware Codes?

  • Mike Phan
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First major screw-up in twenty-five years

  • Ivan Seeking
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Front end of an engineering design

  • Tyst
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Mapping a building for use in game (RADAR?)

  • justing2k5
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How does someone become an Engineer?

  • php111
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Power Your Designs: Human-Powered Lighting Solutions

  • nimun4getable
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Motorcycle vs car performance on a twisty circuit

  • wolram
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Mass moment of inertia of an irregular area

  • garytse86
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Deriving cantilever oscillation period and deflection formulae

  • ash1098
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How much time do engineers spend on physical models?

  • Number2Pencil
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How Can You Ethically Address Concerns with Surveillance Systems?

  • Bally
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Gender Segregation in Engineering Colleges - YouTube

  • siddharth
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Making cardboard organ pipes and windchest louder

  • Mochi
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Cleaning Bottles with Ultrasound

  • McHeathen
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Would covering Earth with aluminum foil reduce global warming?

  • henxan
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Choice fo courses - Accountancy or Engineering?

  • VashtiMaiden
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Find a Reputable Engineering Firm to Build Lab Prototype

  • iyun
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Calculate Deflection(Sag) in Steel Wire w/Formula

  • williamlynn
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Homemade liquid rocket engine all based around a CO2

  • binzing
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Wind Turbine Design: Find Documentation Here

  • Ry122
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Projecting light on a surface for marking.

  • Averagesupernova
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How to convert density from mol/L to kg/m3?

  • Stupid_Engine
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Designing a Custom Sliderule for Long Range Rifle Shooting

  • brianf
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Beam/plate on elastic foundation?

  • cabellos6
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Can I use a terrarium as an aquarium?

  • Mk
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Solar concentrated power generation (~5kW)

  • inflation
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Why can't we build an earthquake-resistant building?

  • Victoria
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Solar water heater combined with Stirling generator for electricity

  • Ulysees
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Solar engine that converts sunlight to motion

  • chiel
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How Can You Weigh a Ship Without a Scale Using Fluid Dynamics?

  • shamrock5585
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Lying on AIF: Risky or Worth It for Engineering at Waterloo?

  • tornzaer
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UPS' Right Turn-Only Strategy Cuts Costs and Time

  • Cyrus
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Would Car Enthusiasts Pay $50 for Custom CNC-Machined Emblems?

  • david90
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Wood I Beam of dimensional lumber

  • sixgun
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Load carrying behavior of shells

  • elena
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Golden Age of Construction Engineering?

  • SF
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How do you define one meter and measure weight in different units?

  • ThienAn
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Can Building a Time Machine Become Reality?

  • DANTHEMAN
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A perpetual motion machine that will work

  • MightyG
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Main reasons for using opera browser

  • grafica
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I to calculate forces on steel rope

  • docdavy
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Calculating Cantilever Pipe Weight Support

  • screwbean
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How to build a cage for demonstration purposes

  • NoPuppyMills
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How Can I Build a Dust Catcher for My Room?

  • SF
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Path from Business to Engineering?

  • sanman
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Constructing a Wall Imaging Device

  • nanoWatt
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Formula involved in calculating Flexuliar Bending

  • ronmarie
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Can Better Bus Systems Save US Suburbs?

  • oldtobor
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How do I build a toothpick bridge that stands upright?

  • MoreZitiPlease
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Why are sports clubs (gyms) are load, not generator, on the grid?

  • EnumaElish
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Fastest sailboats in modern times

  • GiTS
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Summer floods forecast: are amphibious vehicles practical?

  • wolram
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Environmental impact of wood frame vs concrete homes in the US

  • oldtobor
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MIT Sketch Board: Amazing Computer Assisted Blackboard

  • waht
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Should I feed ideas to a paper-pusher engineer at my workplace?

  • wolram
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How can I efficiently build a boomilever using only wood and glue?

  • backdoor
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Minneapolis bridge collapse report

  • mgb_phys
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Project Management Q&A: Any Project Managers?

  • dingpud
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Calculating gear teeth and count for force delivery

  • W00t_hamsters
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Can American/European Engineers Work in India and Other Outsourcing Countries?

  • holymotherf
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Astronaut Farmer: Can You Build a Rocket?

  • wolram
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Do you need strong biology for biomedical engineering?

  • meee
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Burst Pipe Causes Unexpected Adventure in My Garden

  • wolram
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Start Your Low-Cost Electrical/Electronic/Computer Business!

  • david90
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Microwave Leakage: How Sub-Wavelength Radiation Escapes

  • batlep1
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Physics rollercoaster track engineering

  • mike_302
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How did the massive water line explosion occur?

  • 111111
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How does red tacton work?

  • ProToSS
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Will dome structures for plant growth be robust enough?

  • wolram
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Difference between structural and mechanical engineering

  • ralphy
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Can the Energy Tower design truly generate a positive net energy?

  • Unbeliever
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What Are the Advantages of Using Steel for Commercial Buildings?

  • oldtobor
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Sorting Objects into Percentile Groups

  • j777
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What kinds of local stores sell pulleys?

  • keltix
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What makes a winning can in a high school soup can race?

  • sugarfreeky22
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Wild Goose@pf.com - Have I been Chasing?

  • OmCheeto
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Gutenberg effect - who know about it?

  • kttuan
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Art of Electronics for christmas?

  • foges
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Future construction - a theoretical estimate?

  • technobot
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Accounting for hysteresis and repeatability errors in strain gauges

  • babistopher
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Single load cell for loss in weight feeder hopper

  • ghaulk
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Q3: Can a box with air pressure peaks dampen sound energy peaks?

  • kach22i
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Keywords for researching beam stress and shape effects

  • perfectchaos180
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Statically indeterminant problem

  • oakley45
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Hovercraft plans (1) - How much i need in voltage?

  • Neo Cortex
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Struggling with upper-level physics - will engineering be easier?

  • Slinger
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Are Mechanical Engineers in High Demand in Ontario, Canada?

  • Macleef
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