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Looking to achieve opposing mechanical forces.

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Selecting a Motor for 600 RPM and 3 HP: Do I Need a Controller?

  • akaf24
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Good Bearing for a Low Friction Turntable?

  • runningman19
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Ljungström turbine, general info?

  • Chincha40
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Why must brake pads and rotors wear out?

  • FreeForAll
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How to calculate natural frequency of timing belt

  • friscoboya
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I need to maximize my RPMs in a single cylinder flywheel

  • raclemai
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Gear Wear Rig Design: Calculating Load for Maximum Durability

  • Aciek
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Front brakes provide 70% of stopping power. But why?

  • FreeForAll
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Automotive Motor constants at high current

  • Yoni
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Does This Engine Function Properly?

  • trungnguyen89
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Pure bending of a perfectly elastic cantilever beam

  • Shivam Sinha
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Automotive Max Power Output with Air-Fuel Ratio

  • Mohankpvk
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Rear leaf suspension modifications

  • Charlie Cheap
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How to calculate vibrations on a rotating shaft?

  • friscoboya
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Is this kind of pressure chamber design possible?

  • physsure
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Calculating airflow with pressure and diameter?

  • enanthate
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Pressure while heated - half full or full container

  • liquidFuzz
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How to spin a gear at a slower rate without a bigger gear?

  • kolleamm
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How do wet/dry vacuum cleaners work? What is the physics behind them?

  • Dom95
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Calculating Rotation Angle in an Offset Slider-Crank Mechanism

  • aleset
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The common or garden Dividing Head - how does it work?

  • sophiecentaur
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Automotive Design and Simulation of a four stroke Otto engine

  • SeeSharp
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Mean Rating Temperature for insulation in ASHRAE

  • tj00343
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Driving an RC car in a vertical loop, What formula to use?

  • FreeForAll
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Angled beam support reaction loads

  • Rigga81
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What is the estimated top speed of a modified 65 Mustang SIX-Cylinder?

  • Charlie Cheap
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Maximizing Solar Still Output: Is There a Simple Equation?

  • Greenybwa
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Pressure calculation, what am I doing wrong ?

  • MechEng2
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Motor fan pulley sizing for HVAC

  • Muhammad Hasan
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Calculate Force Compression of Crane with Hoisting Slink

  • Herbid
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Acceleration of a car and jet plane problem

  • vysqn
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Design Gearbox #3: Get Help & Expert Advice

  • Holysmokesracing
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Can the Design of a Motorcycle Airbox Affect Engine Noise Resonance?

  • HandSolo
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Calculating the velocity and pressure profiles across an axial fan

  • alewarc
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Automotive Points ignition output voltage and length?

  • Charlie Cheap
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Exotic Bicycle Designs and Engineering

  • jedishrfu
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Calculate the radial force acting on bearings in a carousel

  • Yves De Keuster
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Calculation of pressure variation due to fluid discharge

  • vepexu
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Calculate the additive RPM required for tension control

  • Stixoffire
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1 pipe branching into 3 pipes, pressure of each branch?

  • kingneptune11
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Can Springs Effectively Reduce the Torque Required for a Robotic Arm?

  • Mrj005
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How Many Degrees of Freedom Does an Object in 3D Space Have?

  • e2m2a
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Is engine torque a static force?

  • vysqn
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Automotive Recharge an RV battery by hand cranking a generator

  • grandpa2390
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Will Disney's Robotic Acrobats Replace Stuntmen in Movies?

  • jedishrfu
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Sizing a motor to spin a box which weighs about 600lbs

  • Jason mayak
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Off-Axis Torque To A Cantilever Beam

  • ab042896
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Suitable Motor Selection for Lifting a Part using a Beam

  • David1
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Converting energy to force at impact

  • BPLafser
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Hi-Rise Plumbing: Is It Risky & Unsanitary?

  • DaveC426913
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Gas pressure regulator model in Simscape

  • NarsimhaReddy
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Automotive What is the relationship between tire physics and slip angle?

  • fog37
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Automotive Mechanism to Reverse Rotating Axle with Friction: Ideas Needed

  • Chris184
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How to calculate the required length of an axial pump piston

  • ENGBIO
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Excess Heat Generated By a Liquid Ring Pump

  • Amused_1
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Pressure in a 2" pipe branching into four 1" pipes

  • Senju Panicker
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How to calculate my motor input power

  • Puzzled
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Can Two In-Line Hydraulic Motors Achieve 6000 Metres of Torque?

  • Chris Williamson
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Numerics FEA interpolation order vs element number

  • member 428835
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At what critical Reynolds number does vortex shedding begin?

  • Anashim
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How to add area moments of inertia for varying cross sections

  • friscoboya
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Automotive Finding the Peak Pressure of a Diesel Injection Pump

  • Enzo777
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Fluid flow over part of an aircraft wing

  • P G I
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How to determine the force on the linkage

  • sach2606
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Automotive Why is carbon fiber safer than steel for the cars?

  • Shinyoung Noh
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Automotive How does AC temperature control work in my Toyota Camry?

  • anorlunda
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What is the best material for making gears?

  • Sameh soliman
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How can I calculate the maximum speed of a go kart?

  • Xander
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How to calculate price of artificial oil

  • Tiger Blood
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Isothermal Processes: Ideal Gas Equation and Doubts Explained

  • mech-eng
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Can someone explain to me gyroscopic stiffening and softening

  • tricha122
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Help With Understanding Hooke's Law

  • tomtomtom1
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Can Centrifugal Pump Displace Water Down? | Small Manned Submersible

  • ENGBIO
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Understanding Yield Strength & Stress Strain Curve

  • tomtomtom1
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Compressor work and Thermodynamics

  • rishi kush
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Calculating Effort Needed for Unevenly-Loaded Class 2 Lever

  • Jimbo86
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Starting torque of a motorcycle and rider

  • mec_divi
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Using two duct silencers in series?

  • TSN79
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Patient Lifter Boom design for my ME Senior Project

  • charliebrown
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Pulling power ratio for a cable drum at different capacities

  • Glenstr
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Factors affecting the efficency of water aspirators

  • Hunterc
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Automotive How to calculate force needed to get a tire spinning

  • sugarray
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Stresses in the bending of a thin walled cylinder

  • mechE235
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Modern Manufacturing Engineering

  • anorlunda
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Column buckling in a pin jointed structure

  • xJJx
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Is the Double Channel Wing Design an Improvement?

  • roineust
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Help with a car under braking and friction force

  • eazyduzit
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How to Calculate Heat Requirements for a Stagnant Water Jacket System?

  • Kim Arvin Llanzanas
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Continuity equation and mass flowing through two pipes

  • Mohankpvk
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Fluid force at the end of a pipe

  • Sat D
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How do old-timey radio buttons work?

  • DaveC426913
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What design of a drive system should I use?

  • Ballena Joseph
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How do you run vacuum pumps in series?

  • industria77
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How to design self-reversing screws?

  • RubenJ
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How do I calculate the power of a generator in terms of speed?

  • Ballena Joseph
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Calculating torque at a distance from the lever

  • Ross Hanna
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