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Rotate IMU data to obtain correct measurement data
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Is a Venturi Suction the Solution for Low Pressure in a Centrifugal Pump System?
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Traction Confusion: Overcome Wheel Spin & Improve Your Grip
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Can Energy Be Saved When Using an Air Pump to Lift a 5kg Weight?
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Why did my roller luggage's wheels stop turning smoothly?
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Can You Add Water to a High Efficiency Washer (There is So Little)?
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Calculating force on a syringe plunger for a viscous fluid?
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Using Monopods for city travel utilizing linear induction motors
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Wood as a carbon neutral biofuel
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Hydraulic Liftgate: Find Optimal Cylinder for 90° Rotation
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Why doesn't the tape trick work with scotch tape?
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CNC Laser Exhaust: Need Complete Enclosure?
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Can Radar Technology See Through Walls and Accurately Detect 3D Shapes?
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Maximizing Output Power in DIY CNC Laser Cutters
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How Do You Calculate the Flow Rate of Oxygen in a Pressurized System?
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Cooling tower -- hot and cold water tanks
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Would 2x 5.5" Fans attached to Wye Duct pull efficiently?
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How will the flood outflow be affected by this new diversion?
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Most compressible volumes: synthetic fibre versus natural eider down?
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Ansys workbench Composite Analysis
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Is Orbital Solar Feasible for the Future?
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Can Ansys Workbench Improve CZM Method for Material Fracture Analysis?
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How to select the required accuracy of an instrument?
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Problem with different hydraulic connection sizes on CNC machines
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How to calculate airplane noise as a function of distance?
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Magnetizing a ferromagnetic material
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A Carnot engine between the Earth's poles and equator
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Change the application pole of the moment of a force
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Parallel fans in same ducting system
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Air-to-Water Heat Exchanger - Car radiator
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Pixelation of bitmap images (pixel size, pixel density, resolution)
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Plug the Closed Ends of a Pipe at Depth and Bring it to the Surface
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Instrument accuracy and comparison measurements
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Opening mechanism for a bicycle kickstand
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Installing Snap Ring on a Shaft with Larger OD
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Torsion spring calcualtion for 12 ounces of weight
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Impedance/admittance (acoustic) models for outdoor ground and seafloor
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History of "percent grade" for slope esp. in civil engineering?
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Iron and steel industry flows: A question
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International Harvester HT340 Turbine Tractor
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Bold, Monster, Engineering Successes
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Submarines that don't use compressed air to sink and rise?
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How much weight I can spin on a motor?
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Floating a cruise ship in a bucket of water
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How to Make a Venturi Vacuum System Portable?
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Water deformation subjected to ultrasound waves
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Measuring your body volume without getting wet
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Spectrometer sensitivity (photons/count) at different wavelengths
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Maximizing Boat Speed: Exploring Human Power Ratios
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What is the limiting factor for the maximum speed of stepper motors?
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Theoretically… if I stood on a 2-metre-tall wooden post
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What's the load capacity of 6 aluminium posts?
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New Electric Airplane for Package Delivery
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Are there any advantages to a one-hose (portable) air-conditioner?
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Rotating climbing wall - Components selection
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PEX Pipe in Residential Subfloor Thermal Mass
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Round vs Square cross section tubing
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Uncovering the Mystery of the Triumph Herald's Steering Tie Rod
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Building a Two Omni Wheel Robot: Questions & Answers
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Improving Air Flow on a 50ft Houseboat in the Desert SW
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Pressure in a water heater - does it depend on size?
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What are the key parameters affecting heat transfer in thin tubes?
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Air conditioner dust getting into lungs?
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New to the forum and with my hay bale loader (large bales)
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My model of bicycle spokes breaking
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Designing a Tapered Scissor Arm: Challenges & Solutions
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Allowable uniform loads - W beams vs. LVL
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Truss behaviour, load-deformation curve
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Energy and environmental engineering silly question
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Pressure variations after rapid pressurization
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Prof Festo's Fantastical Flying Robot Menagerie
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Can increasing voltage or changing the motor size help maximize servo torque?
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Question regarding converging-diverging nozzles
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Selecting hydraulic motors and a pump for hydrostatic transmission
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Coil Compression Spring Reaction to a Pulse
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3d printing materials with different melting points?
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Can metal fluid contract under voltage?
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Difference Between FEA Result and Hand Calculation in Beam Bending?
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Freeing the stuck container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal
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Calculating Pressure & Mass for Hydrogen Tank Filling
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Gyroscopic stabilization and the cameras used in MotoGP on-bike video feeds
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4x4" Square Tubing Generator Stand
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Question about Spectral Estimation using AR Models
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Signal Processing: DFT spectrum of sinusoid signals
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Is Having a House Really Important?
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Cabinet with doors lifted by a gas spring
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Control Theory: Derivation of Controllable Canonical Form
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Pressure profile of a gas flow through an orifice
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Building a rooftop for workshop
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How many steel profiles do I need to support a workshop roof in Santiago, Chile?
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Correct bore sizing for a shower hose for a pumped water supply
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Error in ANSYS Explicit Dynamics
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Calculating Flow rate for an oxygen system
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Determining optimal barrel length for a projectile
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How can you determine if a fan is better at blowing or sucking?
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Comparetto type Air Cleaner/Filter: What causes its increased airflow?
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Question about boundary layer growth in convergent and divergent ducts
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Troubleshooting stove heating elements
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LiFePO4 battery heater project (makes sure battery doesn't freeze)
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What Are Principal Stress Planes and Their Relation to Shear Forces?
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