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rob200- I did a search for "sling tension calculator" since what you are doing is an inverted case for a crane lifting sling. Givens: 200 pound person in the middle of a cable stretched between two anchors 100 feet apart. Results: for a cable sag of 3 feet loaded, the tension on the wire...

arranged- Do a search for "hydro power calculator". You'll find many online and several will go into the details...frictional losses, head pressure, etc...some theoretical and some real-world. There's loooooots of info out there online and sometimes the hardest part of finding it is the...

In fluid flow, drag is a much larger factor than pressure on the upstream side. You'd be better off to install the turbine at the small axis of a venturi with the downstream end of the venturi providing vacuum from the drag of wind moving past it than to try to jam more air volume into the...

Spamlessjack- Don't let your calculations be distracted by the diameter of your pipe or tank. Weight of the column is not the same as pressure on a gauge.Don't feel bad when it seems to you that volume should matter, lots of other bright folk make the same error. The ooonly thing that affects...