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Choosing the Right I Beam for 800lb Load Support
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Comparing Round & Square Pipes: Strength & OD, Thickness
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Balanced/Imbalanced wind loads on Parabolic Dish
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Building a Flying Ship: Calculating Necessary Horsepower
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Why won't my riding mower start after engaging the blades?
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What Changes When Cooling a Plate in Air Instead of Oil?
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Confused about using an engineering tape measure for oilfield work?
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Who Were the Key Engineers Behind the Panama Canal's Construction?
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Installing AMPL on Mac for OR Students
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Mechanical vibration and shock control
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How to Calculate Motorcycle Girder Suspension Trajectory?
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Can a Square Building Reduce Drag on a Cylindrical Building?
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Researching Physics of Maglev Train Systems
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Infra red port for board camera
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Bernoulli Equation and Newton Law
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Compressible or imcompressible?
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Moving Big Rocks - Interesting Ways to Keep it Simple
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Inwheel Go-Cart Design Help - Ideas for Precise Control
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About rendering physical reality
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Force on Rollers: 100N Pulled Down, 200N On Cylinders?
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Technology to forecast earthquakes, volcanic activity
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How Much Chemical Solution Is Needed for Proper Dosing in Water Treatment?
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Relationship of Moments of Inertia
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Turning saltwater into freshwater using a centrifuge?
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Interstellar TV: Calculating Detection Range
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Is a double major in electrical and chemical engineering feasible?
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Compensating for accelerometer values
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Nominal Pipe Size and Diametre Nominal
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Does Pressure Equalize in Double Wall Steel Tanks with a Leak?
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Method to Measure CO2 concentration in room
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How to Implement OVP and UVP for Mains Input?
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Are DVD Burner Lasers Capable of Lighting Matches and Burning Paper?
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Can Moving Vehicles Generate Electricity with Electro Gravity Tiles?
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Newbie needs some help kw/rpm relation
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Can You Build a 20-30mph Motorized Longboard?
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Now many lives does a wind turbine save?
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Shear Strength of an Erected Pipe
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Calculating Volume of Water/Air Needed for Filter Backwashing
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Reviewing Engineering Mechanics: Statics by Hibbeler - Is it Worth the Hype?
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Calculate Motor RPM and Horsepower Using Homemade Dynamometer for Pocket Bikes
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Experience and or Thoughts on Dual Major E.E.+M.E.
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Getting high speed from a slow moving object.
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Can a 12V DC Motor Efficiently Power a 120 Amps Alternator at 2100 RPM?
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How to Design an Orifice Plate for a Water Treatment Pilot Plant?
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Loading Gearbox: 1432 or 1-3-2-4 Firing Order?
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Needing info on maths and physics for mechanical engineering
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Time constant of photodiode? parallel stray capacitance?
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Bernoulli's equation confuses me
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How Do I Determine If a Beam Will Break Based on Calculated Stresses?
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Wind turbines - recent developments
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Inexperienced and with project
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Using Acetone as Working Fluid in Rankine Cycle: Efficiency & Boiling Point
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Paper Presentation: VLSI & Embedded Systems Help
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Transient conductive heat flow using finite element method
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Is nuclear engineering the hardest? what is the easiest?
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Is a Fresnel Lens a Better Option for Solar Thermal Applications?
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Build High Speed Winch: 350lbs, 10ft/sec, Control Speed
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Do I need this circulation pump?
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How about a SUV with 33mpg CITY.
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Can the Pyroelectric Effect Power Engines and Generate Electricity from Heat?
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Insect Wings: Modeling the Complexity of Flight
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Why Do Solar Panels Reflect Light Despite Anti-Reflective Coatings?
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Crush pressure on an underwater vacuum tube
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Diameter diff between flow pipe and component connector
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Help: Looking for Gas property software
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What Innovative Strategies Can Enhance Wind Energy Harvesting?
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How to calculate the size of a water accumulator
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Becoming 'energy independant' is folly for the rich.
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Engineering Skills: Am I Qualified?
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Can I get a CAD model of a Honda CRF450 engine for my sports bike design?
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Does Counterbalancing Weight Differ From Concrete Weight in a Spinning Mould?
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Calculating Battery Pack for Electric Skateboard
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Traffic engineering: convenience vs. consumption
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Online Engineering Statics Course at WVU
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Converting Kinetic Energy to Electrical Energy: Engineering Considerations
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Maximizing Efficiency: The Benefits of a Retractable Tailgate for Pickup Trucks
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Rotating Skyscraper in Dubai: Innovation or Disaster?
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Why not a gas/steam hybrid engine?
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Reverb time in my living room has got to be .75 sec
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Recording Voltage readings in Excel
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Why is Applied Mechanics is impotant for engineering ?
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Purpose and function of accumulators in a pump system?
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How Can Biomimetics Inspire Innovative Designs from Nature?
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Tunnel Questions: Level Travel & Salt Table Games
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How Thick Must a Plate Be to Withstand a Projectile Without Failing?
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Ethanol Fuel from Corn Faulted as ‘Unsustainable Subsidized Food Burning’
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Installing Single Drain Sink Systems | Plumbing Advice
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How using shorter-wavelength laser allows more information to be stored
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How Do Magnetic Damping Devices Prevent Metal Objects from Sticking to Magnets?
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Car Following Models: Explaining Older Models
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Are Shock Absorbers the Unsung Heroes of Car Performance?
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Help with my large scale electromagnet
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Could a Clapping Device Be the Ultimate Mosquito Killer?
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Design Geothermal Power Generator: Ideas, Physics & Experimentation
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Using Water as Fuel in Automobiles
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Is a Fiberglass Monocoque Suitable for Building a 50-MPH Electric 3-Wheeler?
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Cylinder/piston pressure multiplier River water pump
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