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Water jet strikes a plate and slows down due to frictional forces?
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Automotive Honda EU generator -- which is the best oil temperature range rating?
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Automotive Front Wheel Drive or Rear Wheel Drive has higher maximum slip ratio?
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How much torque would be on the motor?
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How to Derive Non-Linear Behaviour in Simpack's Force Element F042?
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Calculate the strength of several polycarbonate sheets laminated together
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Automotive Calculating geometry for single pivot arm
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Automotive Bump Steer and how to correct it...?
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Calculate the thickness of a plate to withstand a specified uniform pressure
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Critical Reynolds number and characteristic length
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What is the intuitive meaning behind the polytropic process.
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Compressed Air Engine Calculations
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How to Calculate Input Torque for a Hydraulic Oscillating Ram Pump?
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What is the difference between flow energy and boundary work?
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Why is air in atmospheric pressure and room temperature a gas?
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How does specific volume play its role in the phase diagram?
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How to manufacture this nozzle?
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Castigliano's method for the deflection of a cantilevered beam
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Internal and external pressures
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Pump rotation to provide pressure or volume flow
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Automotive How Can I Calculate the Minimum Value of n2 in Tractor Power Transmission?
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How raked wingtips reduce induced drag?
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Torque required to tilt 1200 kg mass?
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Automotive Tametire tire model by Michelin
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Capture and re-use the heat generated from Air Compression
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Automotive Determining the Brake Caliper Force for a Car
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Shaft/Axle Degrees: Help Finding Solution
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Cantilevered OSB Bending in the Wind
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How can I predict the flow rate for a real life water hose?
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Bending a beam from straight to an arc with axial force
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Shelving Pull Out Force Question
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Gears create more torque? Prove it
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What Are the Best Low-Friction Bearings for Precision Positioning Mechanisms?
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Automotive Idling or turning the engine off?
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Beam width: connected vs dispersed
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Design a non-linear conical compression spring
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Troubleshooting a 2 Pole motor running at low speeds on a VFD
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Automotive What Causes Spark Plugs to Spark?
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Air Compressor Model Analysis
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Is there any way to vary the torque of a gerotor
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Can Reynolds Number < 70 Cause Turbulence in Elbow Fittings?
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Programming to learn kinematics
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Mounting Arm Torque for Short Throw Projectors on Different Walls
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Wind tunnel calculations (making my own)
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Automotive Can anybody suggest some forum about internal combustion engines?
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What force keeps the ball levitated?
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Surface temperature of a Cylindrical heated rod
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The Physics of how a toilet flushes
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Automotive What happesn if you disconnect the driveshaft and rev the engine in Drive?
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Turbine Design for fire-hose driven shaft
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Force and Torque Calculation and Observation
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Will the Internal Gear Rotate with Gear 1? - Gear Rotation Question
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You're welcome! Good luck with your project.
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Hydraulic winch torque questions
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Finite Element Model of Euler-Bernoulli Beam Theory
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Automotive Torque formula to throw a mass with two pulleys and a belt
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Automotive How Do You Calculate Shaft RPM for Different Pulley Sizes?
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What causes low pressure on a wing?
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Snowblower project: max torque at the impeller blower
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Torque required to rotate a hollow cylinder containing chips
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Maximum Deflection in Columns: Fixed & Free End
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Using Fuel as a Combustion Engine Coolant?
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Help with some sort of formula to determine resistance to heat
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Vibration testing on shaker - High amplitude observed
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Automotive Velocity vs Volume in the intake
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Automotive Help Me Design My Z's Headers for 6k Peak Torque RPM
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Normal Stress Balance at a Fluid-fluid Interface
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Four-point flexural test - Please help me understand
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Calculating Horizontal Reaction Forces in L-Beam
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Can a Jet Engine Remove drag from the Hyperloop tunnel?
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Gearbox Explained: Connect Motor, Driveshafts & CV Joints
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Calculating angles of rotation for 2 interconnected levers
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Mechanism with a linear actuator
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Most efficient convergent nozzle
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Find normal force, shear force, bending moment
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How do I Calculate Maximum Length for a W24 X 94 Beam with Moment Loads?
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Calculating the cl_max of a wing from airfoil characteristics
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Distance between a box fan and a perforated plate
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Design a shaft considering torsional failure
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Requesting help to conceptualize a project (keeping an object level)
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Calculating gear ratio from the motor's graph for an EV?
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Hydraulic Modeling of Central Heating Network
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Suspension location for suspension pedestal
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Question about Shear Stress in Simply Supported Beam
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Inertial force acceleration (vertical axis)
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Automotive Death of a car battery and related issues
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Linkage analysis of forces and stresses?
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Acoustic Resonance in Fluid-Filled Cavities
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Von Mises Stress: Yielding & SF Criterion Equation
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How does a metering device on an A/C lower the pressure?
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Meshing & connection issues for a beam/line solid
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Automotive Oil types and viscosities -- advice requested please
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Automotive "Engine fuel consumption map" without the torque possible?
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Steel I Beam Falling Through Water
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Automotive Automobile HP and Gas mileage question
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How to get the best pressure control for branches
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Automotive Can the Mass Flow Rate of Air Change with Propeller RPM?
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How can the Tesla car go up a steep hill without a gearbox?
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Bolt Tightening - Torque versus Tension
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