Recent content by NightSwimmer

True enough. "Simultaneously" is an exaggeration.

Think of your wire as a tube completely filled with marbles. Think of your battery as a marble pump inserting marbles into the "negative" end of the tube as it retrieves marbles from the "positive" end of the tube. Then you can envision how all of your lights would illuminate simultaneously.

"Magnet" is an unknown variable in this hypothetical. Magnitude of magnetic flux field is critical for calculating induced current.

You're going to need "crazy super accurate results" if you are dealing with pure water. It is not a conductor -- it is an insulator.

It seems to me that if your goal was to capture the energy of static electricity in the atmosphere, then you shouldn't wait for a lightning discharge to occur. A better method would be to accumulate the charges prior to their achieving a high enough potential difference to precipitate a...

We have a factory rep visiting the job-site tomorrow. I hope we'll learn what happened then. Maybe we just got a bad batch of electronic components or maybe there was some sort of shipping damage. It could be something as simple as a botched firmware installation. These instruments have on-board...

Yes. The cooler air is more dense than warmer air. Conservation of mass is not an issue. X number of molecules occupy a different volume at a given pressure when at different temperatures. The volume of airflow in a closed conduit will be different at different temperatures, but the mass of...

We have recently discovered that both of the instruments that we received for use in this project are defective. We are currently working with the manufacturer to determine why this happened and to obtain properly functioning mass flow detectors.

All of our piping is new. We are concerned that we might have leakage entering the mill via the rotary airlock valve. Thanks for your input. "The best engineers are the ones that had the coolest treehouses when they were kids." - NightSwimmer

We still have not resolved the disparity between our projected air flow readings vs. our actual readings. I am of the opinion that this disparity is due to a combination of erroneous information from CE Raymond and kiln gasses present in our air stream. We still have not ruled out the...

See sticky note #3.

Does the "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal" not in any way pertain to our inability to measure a characteristic of an object without fundamentally changing the characteristic which is being measured? I know that if I attempt to use a low impedance meter to measure a voltage across a component...

It appears to me that you are making an assumption that, because you achieved the desired results by doubling the wattage of light during the flowering phase of your plant growth, that the light used during the previous stage of plant growth was somehow more "powerful" due to it's different...

Your question reminds me of the "halving the pie" thought experiment that is often used as a simple model to explain radioactive decay. Theoretically, you could always share half of your pie and still have pie remaining to share again. Thought experiments often yield bizarre circumstances that...

Your question is not as simple as you think. "Rust" is a generic term for oxidation that generally refers to Iron Oxide. The same sort of oxidation reaction can occur with other metals. Water doesn't cause rust, but it's presence does facilitate the process of rust formation on Iron. I doubt...