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    Engineering Engineering Timber Beam Stress Calculation Help

    Welcome! You are showing us many photos of the same corner, but we will need to see different angles, in order to provide you with an answer. Also, it seems that you are calling beams the five 4x4 legs, for which you try to calculate maximum moment?
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    What force causes precession?

    Could we compare your example to a bicycle wheel with its hub or bearings and natural axis of rotation not being perpendicular to the plane formed by the tire? If so, nothing changes respect to the original experiment: the thing will still rotate around a verical axis.
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    What force causes precession?

    Could you please explain "the spindle of the top" a little more in detail? Which other way do you believe it could rotate and why?
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    What force causes precession?

    Copied from: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-osuniversityphysics/chapter/11-3-precession-of-a-gyroscope/
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    What force causes precession?

    Welcome! Your attached diagram can't be seen for some reason. Try Control+P to insert the image, please. Regardless explanations or understandings, the phenomena is real. It happens to airplanes with big propellers and to electric hand grinders. There is resistance from any rotating body to...
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    Space Stuff and Launch Info

    I had a chance to see it in real time while I was driving Northbound 30 miles South of Cape Canaveral. Thank you for posting!
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    Why no heatpump/refrigerator combos?

    Are you describing the heating mode? If so, your wrapped-tube heat exchanger would be slightly increasing the temperature of the refrigerant entering the outdoor unit, reducing the amount of heat that unit can suck from the atmospheric conditions. That is assuming that the low thermal load of...
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    Engineering Graphical Four Bar Linkage question

    How the instantaneous position of the mechanism can be determined from the description?
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    High School Uniform thermal expansion of metals

    Make the radii of the holes tend to zero: we have a body tending to look close to a coin. If all the molecules of coin increase at once (uniform heating), its shape expands uniformly. Make the radii of the holes tend to the radius of the disc: we have a body tending to look close to the ring...
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    Any "chess.com" users here who can answer a simple question?

    It works for me. I believe that the white's moves are clever. Perhaps the blacks could have played the queen in the last steps to avoid the checkmate?
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    High School Buoyancy and gravity

    Buoyancy is about the weight of the displaced liquid respect to the weight of the boat. At half gravity intensity, both weights would be cut in half alike. At increased gravity by artificial means, both weights would be increased at the same rate. The line of flotation of the boat should remain...
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    If Heat Is Motion, Why Isn’t All Motion Heat?

    How would you define organized and disorganized types of motion? To me, your answer is correct. Thermal energy is all about the frequency rate at which a group of molecules vibrate or oscillate. Transfer of that thermal energy is all about the rate at which molecules interact or collide with...
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    Why does a fan cool you in a sealed room if it adds heat?

    Because the temperature of the skin is greater than the temperature of the air flowing over it. Note how people living in desert regions insulate themselves from air that is hotter than their skins. Heat always flow naturally from a hot source to a cold sink. The rate at which that heat...
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    VFD for powering a car lift

    Is the lift now able to handle the 2.6 tons RR sport?
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    Positive wing wash-in dynamic soaring one side

    Could you please explain what do you mean by "left wing wash in"? How is the right wing different from the left one? If both differ, what is the purpose of that intentional lack of aerodynamical symmetry? Thank you and welcome!