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A stock car racing Saturday night will have a right front tire temperature up to 225° F tread temperature. Inside the tire will be up to...

What worst case would it see in Arizona or the Australian outback? Inflated at 20°C, the water vapour will provide 0.339 psi of the...

Such confidence. At what temperature was the tire inflated, and at what temperature was it then operated? Was the excess liquid water...

It is only an echo, when energy is reflected back to a listener at the source. The bulk properties of the atmosphere, with water...

There is a way to compute a minimum hardware solution to the problem. I think you must first specify a map of the target area, with...

Both. The flat base of the clouds marks the dew point for the local atmosphere. There is only gas below the cloud base, while above the...

In true Dunning-Kruger style, I found that I did not know what I did not know, until I tried to compute it. It took a while to find a...

Possibly noteworthy: The water content of compressed air is typically 'saturated.' This can be misleading. The vapor pressure of water...

In a nutshell. There are three boxes, 0, 1, and 2. The player picks a random box. 0, 1, or 2. If you simulate the game, then the player...

Nitrogen behaves the same as dry air. In both those cases, the number, n, of molecules of gas in the tire remains constant. Given an...

There is low-velocity deployment activity, at 9km, 7km, and 2km above the surface, during the landing. One of those procedures might...

By definition, if you never left Mars earlier, re-entry would be impossible. Oxidation is reduced in a 95% CO2 atmosphere. The CO2...

If you can draw air into your compressor from a refrigerated cold store, there will be significantly less water dissolved in the air...

Google images says: This scene was captured by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during its mission to study the geology of Mars in...

Here are a couple of other typical situations, a car and a tractor. For a typical light vehicle, normally inflated to say, 25 psi...