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Theoretical Max of an IC Engine

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What type of fan generally yiels the fastest output velocity?

  • infamous_Q
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How can we build a tiny hovercraft using a simple fan assembly?

  • gulsen
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How do you study circuit analysis for diodes and transistors?

  • Mr. A
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Instructional Robot Design Project

  • dekoi
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Control engineering - load variation

  • hanson
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Designing a Pipeline to Create 30% Pressure Drop for 8" Vee Notch Ball Valve

  • ramesh_king11
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A math or a simple fluid problem?

  • hanson
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Calculating Ventilation Effect Watts in a Room

  • TSN79
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How Do I Calculate the Center of Pressure on an Airfoil?

  • ranger1716
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How Does Fuel Usage and Design Affect Jet Engine Efficiency?

  • bill nye scienceguy!
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Why Ferrari Doesn't Use Variable Valve Timing

  • sid_galt
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What Mathematical Principles Govern the Functioning of Water Clocks?

  • hanson
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Why are DC motors still used if AC motors are more powerful?

  • yujay
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Why Going to the Moon is Taking 16 Years This Time Round - Hugo Rune

  • Hugo_Rune
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Diameter of 747-400 and A380 engines

  • Badass
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Free CNC training websites

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Books for Race Car Design and Construction

  • hanson
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Most Advanced Internal Combustion Engines

  • bags
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Why doesn't strain increase indefinitely under constant stress?

  • Cyrus
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Why is there excessive end play in a tapered roller bearing?

  • brewnog
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Attending STAIF-2006 for advanced propulsion research

  • plum
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Calculating Heat Loss From a Room of 125m3 - Confusing Results?

  • TSN79
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What Are the Best Books on Thermal Control of Spacecraft?

  • Baltistani
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Rack and pinion sizing for 1 revolution per 4 feet of bed travel

  • PineRidge7
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Air-Exchange Number: Calculating Heat Loss Through Infiltration

  • TSN79
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Using angled ducted fans for RC aircraft stability

  • Gigabyte111
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History of Strenght of Materials by Timoshenko

  • Cyrus
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What do 1/4 NPT and 3/8 orifice size mean on a solenoid valve?

  • franznietzsche
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Finding the coefficient of lift and units in the lift formula

  • itsjustme
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Why can't I use a heater set to 10°C as a cooler?

  • hkhil
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How to design a race car wing: aspect ratio, shape and cross-section

  • hanson
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How Does a Solar-Powered Air Conditioner Work?

  • bags
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Stirling engine applications in solar farming

  • FredGarvin
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Fluid Mechanics Problem: Calculate Force on Lower Plate

  • JSBeckton
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How Do You Calculate Required Heat Rate for Air in a Furnace?

  • vandesil
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Flat plate lift keeps increasing past stall angle in wind tunnel test

  • sid_galt
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What Elements Enhance Free Machining Alloys Beyond Lead?

  • sachin_himcs
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Finding Max Leak Rate to Maintain Pressure in Pressure Vessel

  • crvz
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Any Recommended Videos on How a Carburator Works?

  • bags
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Motor Shaft Attachment for Small Electric Motor - Suggestions?

  • Shawnzyoo
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How do you align RC car wheels for straight travel?

  • fresh
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Deriving Equation for Triangular Duct Flow

  • jaap de vries
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Why Virgin Galactic flights don't reach true space

  • ~()
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Why is the Tractor Backwheel Larger than the Forewheel?

  • sachin_himcs
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Reference material and design parameters for crabsteering

  • sree
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Slip flow measurement for micro-scale Newtonian fluids

  • cecil_hk
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Understanding Non-Lubricated Journal Bearings

  • Cyrus
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Measuring the Natural Frequency of Concrete: Techniques and Considerations

  • joker_900
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What is the pump-down principle for cooling system control?

  • TSN79
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Can a Hand-Warmth Powered Stirling Engine Light Up LEDs?

  • Lord Draconis
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How Can I Connect Wheels and Circuits to My Scrambler Project's Wooden Cart?

  • dieselflight
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How strong is a helicopter's downwash at hover?

  • anders
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Why is thermionic emission and thermoelectric generator efficiency so low?

  • sid_galt
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Designing a Simple Hydraulic Lift for Pascal's Principle Presentation

  • Tobes
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Why does the right side of a Piper Navaho receive more damage in a crash?

  • Danger
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What is the difference between foot pounds and poundals?

  • Jdo300
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Gastrobotll me about gastrobots

  • Genecks
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Rejuvenation catalyst for Petrobond (R)

  • Flyboy
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High-pressure steam engine design with one-way valves

  • Nathan322
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Diamond Evacuated Bubble Contest.

  • Intuitive
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Are Solar Power Satellites the Future of Renewable Energy?

  • Vast
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Designing a Beam for Materials Class Project

  • Cyrus
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Constructing a NiTi Flower Prototype

  • Ayrity
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Fluid mechanics friction factor formula

  • billybob70
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Highschooler who built a hovercraft

  • aquaticlife
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Infrared static earth sensor modelling

  • ijat_h
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Finding streamfunction from complex potential F(z)=U(z²+4a²)^1/2

  • Lucus
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Is There a Y-Component of Velocity in Fully Developed Pipe Flow?

  • billybob70
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How does lifting reentry reduce deceleration during reentry?

  • Flyboy
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How to Build a Simple Maglev Train Model for a Research Project?

  • M Asghar
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What materials are used in ablative heat shields?

  • Flyboy
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Fluid Mechanics -continuity equation

  • billybob70
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Build a pulse-jet for my final year project

  • Rhino
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How Does a Turbofan Engine Work?

  • karim102
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Vibration caused by spin fixtures?

  • ptrepkowski
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What happens to sonic booms once a plane breaks the sound barrier?

  • jhe1984
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Straightening Bent Teeth on Rotor for Stator - Tanis Foodtec

  • wolram
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How to fill a PVC water loop with no air pockets or fill port

  • KingNothing
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Pressure, Viscosity, Thermal conduction?

  • Raptor01601
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Lift and Pressure Question ( )

  • physicsCU
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Can Calculus be Applied to Air Conditioning?

  • juicev85
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Hydraulic telescopic cylinder plasterboard lift design

  • carla118
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Using a heat exchanger to recover heat from shower drain water

  • gschjetne
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Find Resources for Modeling Generic CEV Re-Entry

  • schemp98
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How Do You Design a Safe and Efficient Plasterboard Lift?

  • carla118
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Even Better Than Superior To Nature?

  • SkepticJ
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Force and deflection needed to remove a crown bottle cap

  • tompotts
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Why does a jet look like this when it breaks the sound barrier?

  • QuantumTheory
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Solving Feynman's Puzzle: Which Direction Does the Tube Spin?

  • carlz
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Gear Size Selection for Small Direct Drive Racing Cars

  • steven mosher
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Air-Flow Between Two Different Pressures

  • pyrexyn
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Quasiturbine engine takes in fuel after compression

  • sid_galt
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