By definition, a source is a device delivering energy into a system, while a load is a device extracting…
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Given the ability of pressurized fluids to transmit force over long distances, it is not surprising that many…
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Area refers to the size of two-dimensional surface. Volume refers to the size of a three-dimensional space. To…
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Most of these formulae appear in molecular chemical form rather than structural form. For example, ethanol…
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An variable-area flowmeter is one where the fluid must pass through a restriction whose area increases with…
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The key to understanding how three-phase electric motors work is to have an accurate mental picture of the…
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Using filter cells to eliminate wavelengths associated with interfering gases is called positive filtering in…
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The following photograph shows a large air blower in a wastewater treatment facility equipped with a…
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Once while working as an instrument technician in an aluminum foundry, a mechanic asked me what it was that I…
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The efficient identification and correction of instrument calibration errors is an important function for…
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A different strategy for controlling the flow of fluid is to insert a rotary element into the flow path.…
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It is often useful to express the amplitude of an alternating quantity such as voltage or current in terms…
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Learning is not merely a process of information transfer. It is first and foremost a transformation of…
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I remember first learning about the world-wide Internet, and wondering what it actually looked like. The first…
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Programmable logic controllers are essentially nothing more than special-purpose, industrial computers. As…
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Capacitive level instruments measure electrical capacitance of a conductive rod inserted vertically into a…
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Perhaps the most important rule of controller tuning is to know the process before attempting to adjust the…
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The three “elementary” particles of matter comprising all atoms are electrons, protons, and…
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The following animation shows the calculus concepts of differentiation and integration (with respect to time)…
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