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    How Do Home Appliances Manage Fluctuating Circuit Currents?

    The reason why the appliances draw different currents is because they are connected in parallel. If they were connected in series the same amount of current would pass through them.
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    Build a 555 DC AC Inverter for a 72W TV & 12V Car Battery

    How are you EEs. I would like to use my 12V car battery as backup power for a 72W television so that I can watch every minute of 2006 soccer world cup action (in case of Electricity company power cuts). After some searches I found this inverter http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/555dcac.html...
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    Kernel32.exe DLL Initialization Fail

    Thank you PerenniaII I will try to source the appropriate AntiVirus but Is there a way that I can log on and get access to some files I want to urgently use?
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    Kernel32.exe DLL Initialization Fail

    I am using an IBM Pentium 4 machine with windows xp. When I witch on the machine and try to log on a note pad window appears with a message – miss my father my mother NQHLLv1. omiss my father ….and so on .And then the message Kernel32.exe DDL initialization fail.Can you please help me solve the...
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    Undergrad Magnetomotive Force: Causes, Effects & Wire Bending

    In simple terms, magnetomotive force is the effort exerted in creating a magnetic field. Increasing either the number of turns or the current in the coil will increase the mmf. The same changes will also increase the flux if the medium in which the coil is can carry more flux. To find the...
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    Undergrad Bicycle Shox Dynamics: Velocity & Acceleration Measurement

    I am sorry I do not know of any good website which shows the methods to find accelerations and velocities in a Four bar linkage. Maybe someone out there can help.
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    Undergrad Bicycle Shox Dynamics: Velocity & Acceleration Measurement

    Don't we have a four bar mechanism there. If that is the case u can calculate the velocities and accln using the instantaneous centers method
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    Other Becoming an Engineer: Considerations and Personal Experiences

    If you want to know how to do things without knowing why they are done then become an engineer, but if you want to know how to do things and why they are done then physics is the best option for anyone who is considering whether they should become an Engineer. I personally think Engineers just...