Pipe is a hollow structure designed to provide an enclosed pathway for fluids to flow, usually manufactured…
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Any physical location in an industrial facility harboring the potential of explosion due to the presence of…
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A very common form of on/off valve used for pneumatic and hydraulic systems alike is the solenoid valve. 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 dispersion of visible light into its constituent colors goes all the way back to the 17th century with…
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A vertical column of fluid generates a pressure at the bottom of the column owing to the action of gravity on…
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An electromechanical relay is an electrical switch actuated by an electromagnet coil. As switching devices,…
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Any power grid large enough to meet the demand of an entire nation must have multiple generators drawing from…
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At the root of successful system diagnosis is a rigorous adherence to scientific reasoning. There exists no…
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An extremely important topic in engineering is that of transfer functions. Simply defined, a transfer function…
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Classical mechanics (often called Newtonian mechanics in honor of Isaac Newton) deal with forces and motions…
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In the United States, the ANSI and IEEE organizations have standardized a set of numerical codes referring to…
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Tube, like pipe, is a hollow structure designed to provide an enclosed pathway for fluids to flow. In the case…
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A sliding-stem valve body is one where the moving parts slide with a linear motion. Some examples of…
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Disturbances in the liquid tend to complicate liquid level measurement. These disturbances may result from…
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In reliability engineering, it is important to be able to quantity the reliability (or conversely, the…
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Some self-powered (4-wire) analog electronic transmitters are designed to behave as electrical loads rather…
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Three-phase AC is the dominant mode of electric power generation and distribution in modern societies.…
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Layer 1 of the OSI Reference Model is where we define the “physical” elements of a digital data…
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In addition to Ohm’s Law, we have a set of rules describing how voltages, currents, and resistances…
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