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Just finished with my 4-year B.Sc. program now thinking engineering
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Does Conservation of Mass Apply to Compressible Gases in Vents?
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Section and plastic modulus of built up members
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Want to be an Engineering Student - a few questions
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Find Video & Drawing Software Tutorials
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Hydraulic Dune Buggy Design: Is My Math Correct?
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Loaded beam in compression? (buckles?)
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Proper Wiring of Old Washing Machine Motor
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Power Factor Questions in AC Circuits
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Air France Jet Crash: Are Commercial Jets Safe Against Lightning?
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Manufacturing Process To Made Air Conditioner Evaporator
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Accelerometer Noise PSD to Velocity Random Walk
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Calculating Bending Moments for a Supported Bar: Need Help!
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Split Pipe Pressure: Is P1=P2=P3?
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Pressure drop along a water pipe
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Forces on a constrained party balloon
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Using a hydraulic press for sample testing experiment. Need Help.
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Rube Goldberg Machine for physics class in highschool any ideas?
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Calculating Gear and Gearbox Torque
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Rectifier Circuits: Questions & Answers
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What is the Appropriate Term for the Contacting Surface on a Valve in the U.S.?
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How Does Piston Movement Affect Pressure in a Closed System?
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Torsion Shear of Shaft with Transverse Hole
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Can Microturbine Exhaust Be Safely Cooled for Pedestrian Areas?
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Calculating Efficiency of Diesel Cycle
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Help in designing water turbine for given wattage
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Advantages of Using Cast Steel vs. Cast Iron in Gear Box Casings
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Why Won't My Archimedes Screw Elevate Water?
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Sound velocity in a moving fluid
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Laplace plane meaning in control engineering ?
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How do you Calculate shear stress?
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Predicting raindrop speed from a given height
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Is there any Physicists that think Free Energy could maybe be possible?
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What type of motor is best for a DIY ribbon cutting machine?
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Build PVC Pneumatic Cylinder for Robotics Competition
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How to Calculate Metacentric Height for Stability of a Floating Body?
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Solving the Solar Panel Debacle: Powering a 6V Battery with 4V Cells
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Washing machine motor soap extruder
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Air Flow Calculation for Orifices: Diameter and Length Requirements
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Calculating CFM from PSI and C.S.A.
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Non return valve location - booster pump/accumaltor
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Why Does a Boat Turn When in Reverse?
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How Effective Is a DIY Copper Tube Heat Exchanger for Cooling Hot Water?
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Dyson bladeless fan/turbine compressor building air cooling?
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Guyan Reduction for Modal/Eigen Analysis of Buildings
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What does a shear force diagram for a cantilever look like?
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Determining the transfer function of a humidity chamber
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Can Cooling a Room With a Car Radiator Work?
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Why don't AI systems have good voices?
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Why Was Room-Temperature Hydrogen Preferred in Hot-Air Zeppelins?
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How viable is it to take energy from excess heat?
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Robot Climbs Rope Without Batteries: Project Idea
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What Size Hole Causes a 2 kPa Pressure Drop in a 500L Vessel?
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How to calculate required hp for machine
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Mechanical to Electrical Energy Project: Urgent Help Needed
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Key Traits for Successful Engineers: Beyond Math and Science
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DC motor mounted on a glider which slides linearly on a frictionless surface
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How often does a civil engineer use vectors?
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Calculation of Permissible Jib Crane Load
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Real formula for gamma(deformation) in torsion of a rod?
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Can Sound Waves Be Used to Turn a Screw Like a Sonic Screwdriver?
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Calculate pitch rate from altitude
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Information Theory - Shannon's Self-Information units
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How Do I Properly Connect Separate Electrical Circuits in an Industrial Setting?
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Force needed to turn a windmill generator
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How Do Adjustable Crush Drums Impact Force and Torque Calculations?
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How bulbs and globes are vacuumed and sealed?
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Air conditioner specs: watts vs Btu/hr
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Calculating Light Intensity from Sunlight for Solar Food Dehydrator
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High Voltage Salvage: Extracting Safely from Old CRT Monitor
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What to do with a washing machine motor?
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Calculating the force to bend steel
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Is it possible to use a laptop as electronic test equipment?
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Help with Older Electronic Inspection System - Cognex DVT 630 Camera
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Calculating Mass MoI of Aircraft Accurately
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Tri Axis Accelerometer Data Help
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Designing a digital eyepiece camera
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Building an infrared heater element
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Effects of propylene glycol on heat transfer efficiency
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Measuring water pressure differential in a pvc pipe
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Rate and Frequency, Are they the same?
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Steam required to boil a substance?
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Units assistance for loading of parts
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Desk addition for raising and lowering monitor/keyboard/mouse setup
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Large Scottish Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Reservoir and Dam (@ Coire Glas)
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Can wind turbines harness energy from moving vehicles?
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Active Noise Control for Waterjet | Hi Everyone Forum
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Can a car run solely on wind and electricity?
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Understanding Wavelet Transform for Time Series Data Analysis
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I want to make a house which will be controlled my your laptop or a cell phon
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Calculating pressure needed in a misting system.
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Is Elastance equal young modulus?
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Looking for some advice/guidance
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Thought Prob : Regenerative Damping of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator
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At which depth could the existance of gold being plausible?
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