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Electric Singing Saw - Spring Steel Alloy (Material Science)
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Calculating Shear Force between a Moving Film and a Cylinder
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What Size Aluminum Angle for 200-Pound Load on Attic Hoist?
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Relevance of IIHS crashworthiness ratings
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Pneumatic cylinder and working speed
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Wheel ground pressure vs wheel size
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Transient vibration of an engine
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What is the normal force in A and B?
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Static Analysis Of Bolted Joints
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How to calculate a pressure drop in a branch of a loop ring pipe
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Pressure of Slurry in a Stainless Steel Pipe
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Simplified Tapered Cantilever Beam Generalizations
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Where Can I Find Replacement Pinion Gears for My Microscope?
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Lubricate a Chain with Grease & Solvent?
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The force required to move an object (piano)
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Need Advice: Passing a Ball Bearing from Air to Water
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Protective Gear Against Extreme G Forces in High-Speed Vehicles
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What are interesting/cool topics about material deformation?
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Equilibrium equations - spherical coordinates
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Ultimate Waterproof Padlock for Outdoor Use | Durable and Strong
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Calculating the Torque to mix a liquid
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Turning Moment of Single Cylinder 4-Stroke Engine | Explanation
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Function for the Thrust of a Ducted Fan
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Exit flow rate in a Plate Heat Exchanger
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Outlet Volume flow rate from a steam turbine
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Converting PSI Pressure Loss in a Pipe to Fluid Loss Rate
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Wind Forces on Roof: Calculating Amount of Weight Needed
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Signs of Tensile and Compressive Stresses
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How to calculate this torque? (steel ball in a spiral tube)
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Number of pins? & Point of contact?
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Calculate the gear ratio for every gear
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Direct steam injection into cooling water line at pump suction
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How does glue reinforce two sheets of paper joined together?
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Solving Shear Force and Bending Moment at Reaction Point R
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Beach Cleaner Machine Research in Ontario, Canada
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The direction of the tangential force (Fully developed laminar flow in a pipe)
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What is the relationship between pipe diameter and frictional loss?
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What Motor Setup is Needed to Rotate a 75 lb Cube at 6 RPM?
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Torque required to spin a hollow cylinder
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How does a low charge on an A/C cause the subcooling to be low
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Overall Thermal Conductivity of Three different layers
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Deflection of an aluminium plate
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Help me build a mathematical model
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Best speed reducer for a simple project (gearbox design choice)
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Trying to build a miniature binary geothermal plant for education
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Calculating Steam Turbine output power
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Need help with a force calculation (deformation of a cylinder)
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Fluid passing through a convergent-divergent nozzle
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Where can I find a wiring diagram for this Toyota air throttle body?
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Automotive Wind Turbine on the grill of the car
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Difference in genset speeds i.e. 3600/1800 rpms
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What factors determine the viability of regenerative power plants?
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Is the Breguet Range Equation Enough to Determine Aircraft Range?
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Emergency beacons and airplane crash
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I need to know the power of a flywheel
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Can Vector Analysis Help Find Replacement Weights for Spin Balance?
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Flow rate of steam in power plants
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Decreasing Motor Torque Requirement With a Gearbox
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What is the density of a constant? (spring constant)
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Resultant moment of beam fixed at one end
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MHD Generator Performance with Ionised Gas
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Finding torque around a structure
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What Characteristic Length Should Be Used for Fluids in Low Gravity?
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Designing a Neural Network Control System
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Are There Multiple SCRAMjet Designs or Just One Accepted Model?
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Can Anyone Program Artificial Satellites or Do You Need Specific Skills?
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Hydraulic Analogue - Mapping Electric Circuits to Fluid Flow
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Electric mining truck creates electric power
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Needed: Equation for line drag in water
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Springy wire with custom cross-section
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Light testing for leaks in a thin metallic membrane
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ASME Piping Standards: Superheat Corrections & More
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Force to propel a sliding gate up a 2,4 degree incline?
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Relation between temprature and pressure of a gas bieng compressed
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Free Vortex Flow: Vorticity & Streamlines at Eye of Vortex
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Why doesn't the stagnation temperature change in a stator?
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Can I calculate the flow rate of a compressed gas from pressure?
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Landing forces at aircraft touchdownequations?
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Huge pressure drop after changing pipe length (Don't think it's loss)
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Automotive Gas Turbines in Cars: Efficiency, Power & More
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KNO3 Sugar rocket propellant and safety
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How to choose the right power screw dimensions given the maximum load
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Automotive Car Hazard lights turning on by itself
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Homemade Parachute for Model Rocket
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Automotive Maximizing MPG in a 1973 Ford 200 Inline 6-Cyl for a 65 Mustang
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Automotive For those who do their own automotive work
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Practical application of engineering mechanics dynamics in civil engineering
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Beginner's approach to CFD software?
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How is the turbine speed controlled by Grid but not by itself?
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Finished Floor Level (FFl): Measurement Explained
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How can I calculate the bending moment of a pin in double shear?
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Automotive Can I have a multi-stage reciprocating compressor?
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Deflect Steel Plates for Crane Outriggers
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Fluid Interface Frequency Transform
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Why did the superheat go up as I added refrigerant?
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Solving Impeller Analysis: 3 Unknowns & 0 Inlet Velocity?
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Fluid Oscillating in a Channel CFD
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Why true strain is always smaller than nominal strain in tensile test?
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Why have a feed force in the cutting process?
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What is the force required to upright a tipped drum?
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