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Pressure of stagnant fluid volume in rotating cylinders
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Static pressure in ducts and vessel
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How Does End Fixation Affect Slenderness Ratio and Axial Load in Steel Columns?
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Effective Methods for Securing a Rotor Disk to a Shaft
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Can I Pursue Mechanical Engineering Without Junior Physics?
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Combustion Temp's for an IC Engine
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How can one design an efficient vortex using an impellar and a cylinder?
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Heat Transfer of Horizontal Closed Loop Systems
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Static Pressure Poorly Described by Texts
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Some Food For Thought for Tinkerers
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Who Worked on the Electronics of the Avro Arrow?
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How to get a hexagonal nut out of a round hole
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'Jet' engine with positive displacement compressor?
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Is Exiting Nitrogen in Jet Engines Contributing to Thrust?
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What is Aeroelasticity? Is it one of the branches of Aerodynamics?
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Heat transfer or fluid dynamics?
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What factors limit the maximum speed of a ground vehicle?
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Mechanical Principles. Engineering Components
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Scram Jet Blimps: Reaching Space with Rigid Dirigibles and Scram Jets
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Canard Configuration and Sum of Moments
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Spring designed for compression
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Which Book is Best for Learning Dynamics in Engineering Mechanics?
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What does a CEM actually do? Strictly Energy Audits and such?
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Square wheel locomotion for MEMS
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How does this new car system produce hydrogen using metals?
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Rand Cam Engine: New Automotive Technology
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The Minimum Speed Necessary for a Scramjet to Operate
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Understanding Residual Stresses: Books & References
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Nu (Nusselt) number for vertical rectangular enclosures
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Why Does a Cylinder Have the Least Moment of Inertia Compared to a Ring?
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Build a machine that lifts and transports a load?
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Geothermal Well charachteristics
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