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Is a Heterogeneous Slurry Still Governed by the Darcy-Weisbach Equation?
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Sound Laser? Focus Sound Like Laser?
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Relation Between Engine HP & KW Output
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Spinning magnetic field through a coil-can this propel engines?
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How can I simulate the power grid with distribution generations?
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Can Excel Handle Dynamic Ground Profile Simulations for Survey Computations?
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Where to start? Modeling a UAV Control System in Simulink
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Welcome Engineer Designing a 30 W Brushless DC Motor
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Threshold speed in wind turbine. Is it dependent on frictional resistance?
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How Can We Accurately Calculate Angular Acceleration on Our Inertia Dyno?
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How Accurate Can Static Pressure Measurement Be?
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Which Engine Type Should Car Manufacturers and Buyers Choose?
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Are trucks more efficient than cars?
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Non line of sight position sensor/ detector
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Radial pressrue given lateral strain
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How to make a simple water filter?
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Beam with simple support at center
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Fan failure and yield strength
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Heat loss whilst in steady state
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Understanding Pump Capacity at 30m Head
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What’s the more adequate engineering?
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How to make a wide range of voltage to be constand
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I'm a electronic engineering student.I need some help.hope
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How does the launch altitude alter the range of a missile?
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Is This Embedded Systems Project an Oscilloscope?
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Charging an electrochemical capacitor
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Lunar Rover Equipped with HD Video Camera
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Roller Bearing Specs: Load Capacity, Size, Friction Coefficient
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What Types of Engineering to Build an Electronic Device?
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How to make a motorized pounding mallet
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Should I get the 2 GHz or 2.2 GHz 15 MacBook Pro?
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Is Cross Bonding Necessary in Multi-Leaf Concrete Block Retaining Walls?
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Calculating modulus of elasticity?
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Why Are My Reactions Not Symmetrical?
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Natural Frequency Question SI Units
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Understanding the Discrepancy in Horsepower Ratings for Air Conditioning Units
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COMSOL Natural Convection Thermosyphon Convergence Problem
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Find the linear portion of a curve
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Calculating Square Tubing Dimensions for Vertical Bicycle Support
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Find Mil Can A Standard: Get the Information You Need Now!
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Nuclear powered cargo ship question
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Evaporation System for Household Waste Water - Solar Vacuum Tubes
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Cold Pressure Welding: Tips for Success
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Reflective vs. light emitting displays
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Simple Calculations for Information on a Car
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Using Shipping containers as compressed air 'Batteries
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What is the impact of changing channel size in microfluidic devices?
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Moment of Inertia for a machine
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Can I Solve Non-Linear Curve Fitting Without Levenberg-Marquardt?
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DESIGN THE BEAMS for a cheap bridge
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A human can develop an infinety strategies to solve apuzzle by his
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Design of a mixing box of different gases
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Figuring out electrolysis at higher temps and pressures
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I want a level sensor for a tank
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Can this be done with a heat exchanger?
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Engineering Careers at Aquariums
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Effectiveness of Dimpled Wind Turbine?
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What is the best pump for high temperature liquid transfer in home beer brewing?
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Calculation of Thermal stress in a steel cube put inside another bigger steel cube
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Solar power plant: steam quality questions
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Transparent Display glasses (Augmented Reality)
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New 4 stroke engine efficiency
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Is frictional resistance to rotation almost negligible with magnetic bearings?
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Gas or vapor and a liquid from another liquid using temperature.
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Calculate Water Displacement of 295ft Barge
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Why Choose a Hydraulic Motor over an Electric Motor?
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Can Arctic Methane Be Exploited to Mitigate Climate Change?
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Coupling multiple engine onto one drive shaft
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Do I Need a Resistor to Lower Voltage for a Solar Cell Phone Charger?
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Find Instruction Manuals for Oscilloscopes, Vacuum Pumps and More
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Calculating Magnetic Forces: Theory and Methods
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Speed of water at a certain poinmt in a pipe
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Solving Torque & Rotation with DC Motor: Scott's Project
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How do I efficiently support a 600ft long pipeline?
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Constructing a Deck with Beam supports
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Darlington Pair/ Darlington Transistor
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Atomizer Design Challenge? (Bernoulli's Principle)
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Question regarding Pic programming
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Connecting Quadrature Encoder to Single-Ended Channel: Advice
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2 pole 4 pole 8 pole motors
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Water evaporation using solar reflector dishes
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Where can I find a 12VDC >2hp electric motor with gear reduction?
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Understanding Car Suspension Equations
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From Computer Science to Solar Energy Engineering
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Terraforming Ganymede: Making Life Possible?
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Question about gas leak engineering units
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Mecanism for cutting peat moss bale
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Understanding Spark Cameras: A Brief Overview
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Sources of information on time-frequency domain transformation
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Transient Thermal Analysis in Ansys (APDL)
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How fast will water drain from this area?
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Modeling Surface Water Temperature of a Pond
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Gross Weight Load: Can It Be Used for Railcar Gravity Force?
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Heat Loss From a Closed Box - Experimental Help
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Blind hole or through hole, which is better?
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Civil Engineering - Do All Engineers Study the Same?
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Vibration Question relating to People
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Thermoelectric Effect: Powering a House?
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Rectangular Scientific Mirrors - 2"x1" & 3"x1
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Does this idea sound plausible
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