Whoa... I wasn't calling you a liar, just made the assumption that you are not a ME. After all, that isn't stated anywhere. For all I know, you are a biology major doing some work on a green house... but please accept my appologies if I came across as anything but helpful.
The basic thing is...
you kind of answered your own question (at least the way I understand it). The "flung out" part hints that the particles will at most have the tangential velocity of your rotating part that they are attached to. So the maximum velocity can be v=w*r or rotational speed (radians/sec) * radius of...
I'm assuming that you are not a Mechanical Engineering Student, otherwise you would have had Heat Transfer by the time you reach your senior year... indiependent of that, the basic approach you will need to take is the following:
- Break your problem up into logical chuncks. If you have a...
I think you will need to consider what is available and easy enough for you to do. If you have serious equipment at your disposal and sufficient time, it would certainly be nice to work out a more advanced system. However having said that, you may want to consider starting at the low/easy end...
Use a coil wrapped around the tube when you bend it. Most hardware stores sell these as tube bending kits (if you live in the US, check Harborfreight, they have one for $2). The idea is to prevent the tube from deforming radially...
Another approach used (for instruments) is to fill the tube...
you'll likely calculate an ODE with a forcing component... or the transfer function using displacement at two points (more likely).
But the reason I came to read this is really the "7DOF Car" part... How can you have 7 degrees of freedom? Do you have a DeLorean with a Flux Compensator :)? If it...
I think the consensus was (towards the end of this thread at least) that the pump doesn't add anything to your problem and that the 20 minutes was not correct. I'm not sure what you are pointing out above but the finite differences method you seem to be touching on will not get you there (it...
My recommendation would be to use a PIC from microchip. You can get a nice kits from www.rentron.com. If of course learning PicBasic isn't what you want to do, you can also learn assembler (painfull if you ask me) and program the chips like that. I have found that a PIC is easy to use once...
I think Yeti08 points to an important 'additional' item here that should not be overlooked (apart from the interaction between heat capacity and temerature of course): The delta-T, the heat rise of the oil as it gets heated in the exchanger is fairly constant (other than fluid-temperature...
Let me throw in my 2cents on this one...
you can approach this from two (very) different perspectives, one will fit you better than the other (you'll figure out which works for you): Theoretical or Real.
On the theoretical side (say you were in college and this was on a test/homework), you...
I would still recommend you look into coming up with a way to insert the transducer inbetween the actuator and the "target". But if there really is no way to do that, you should be ok with what you are describing. Note however that just because a cell has a maximum rated value doesn't mean it...
Well, as you point out, I'm not quite sure what you are after. There are a lot of different connectors that you could consider, as you mention, especially the screw terminal type. My favorite place to look for electronic parts is http://www.digikey.com.
One item that I have a problem with...
If I understand the problem correctly (and I'm not necessarily saying that I fully understand what the goal is here), the load cell will measure the applied force as well as any resulting force due to the acceleration of the moving part of the actuator (as well as any acceleration the non-moving...