Monday, March 31, 2014

Proving Pascal’s Principle With Syringe Hydraulics

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The Syringe Hydraulics Arm project on my website has been one of the most popular project articles. Lately I have been working on building ...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Progressing From Projects to Practical Application Garage Door Opener Repair

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With all the projects on my website http://www.ideas-inspire.com  and the project building classes I have taught I sometimes wonder if the k...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Torque and Lever Arm Calculations for a Mousetrap Car

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Torque has been defined either as a twisting force or the tendency to rotate around an axis.  A common example of torque is tightening a bol...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Judging Sail Car Event at MN Renewable Energy Challenge

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For the second time I had the opportunity to volunteer as a judge for the Minnesota Renewable Energy Challenge at the School of Environmenta...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Math for Calculating Area of Vertical Fin

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To keep an airplane flying straight normally a vertical fin is needed, the position is usually above the horizontal stabilizer. For a sport ...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Climb of an Airplane Maybe Not Intuitive

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During the process of working on an article for the new website http://www.ideas-inspire.com on aerodynamics I ran across a couple of simple...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Using Online Calculator to Compute Lift

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Most likely one of the first formulas one would see when studying aerodynamics is the formula for lift.  It can be seen re-written from var...