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Firstly, Thanks for your response! As usual there is more context to this problem! I work in multi-body systems and I am trying to come up with a "rule of thumb" or sensible hand(ish) calc in order to tune the energy absorption of the various suspension components. So unfortunately, I am...

Good evening, I have been wrestling with the following and thought I would ask for help. I am trying to come up with the equations of motion and energy stored in individual suspension components when a wheel is fired towards the car but, there is a twist! I am assuming a quarter car type...

Homework Statement Given: effects of drag for a free falling body are a= 9.81[1-(v^2)*10^-4] m/s^2 V0 = 0 m/s and the falling body is very very high Find: the velocity after 5 seconds and the bodies terminal velocity as t -> infinity Homework Equations ∫dv = ∫a dt...

Yea I never really did state the actual problem I got a bit too excited. The question is for what angles theta phi and gamma does the beam stay in static equilibrium. I will re-post a better picture shortly.

I just want to make sure my thinking and free body is correct before I go further in a project I am working on; for some strange reason (probably the curved path) I am doubting myself. I will try and explain the problem but the attached image is probably the best description. There is a...

Hey, I am a current engineering student and I have had 2 different types of tablets so far, the think pad x61 tablet and the new think pad tablet. The x61 is an older model right now to say the least but it and most tablet PC's have wacom digitizers built in which when you consider you are...

ok got you thanks

Ok so what this is saying is that you are differentiating a function y(x) w.r.t to time But then it appears that you are treating x as a function of time and not as a variable so why wouldn't y(x) = x(t) -(x(t)^2/400) d(y(x))/dt= (x(t) -(x(t)^2/400))dx/dt be correct? Because...

Thanks for your replies its starting to make sense I guess I am just lost in a sea of math/physics/engineering notation. Would this be the correct way of expressing this problem in terms of leibniz notation? Its over rigorous but I really want to understand the notation and what meaning...

Everything makes sense except for the problem I guess. I get the "root sum square" concept etc. but I think what is confusing me is that the problem states that the particle moves along the path but does not explicitly define the fact that there is a t parameter in the equation. You yourself...

Homework Statement I have elected to put this in the "math" section because it is primarily a math question however, please read to problem knowing that it came from an engineering dynamics textbook. Given: (as written) A particle moving along y= x - (x^2 / 400) where x and y are in...

Both of these replies make a lot of sense the real issue I guess is when I try and solve problems for "fun" . Text book problems are usually not as much of an issue because they typically are "ready made". Here is what I was pondering its a silly question but here it goes A 2 cars with...

Recently I have been having issues knowing when to use the work energy principal vs. impulse momentum or using F=ma and integration. I seem to default with all problems to integrating work done over a path but then messing it up or that not being the proper approach. The issue seems to be...

Have you checked out ANSYS? Also the solid works flo-works might be able to help you

I would recommend in addition to the make-zine website you also check out instructables If it were me I would see if you could use it as a generator