Physical Problems

Differentiation

Chemical Engineering
How quickly does the slick spread?

Civil Engineering
Stress Concentration Around a Hole

Computer Engineering
Detecting edges of images

Electrical Engineering
Avoiding arcing in switches

General Engineering
Finding the acceleration of a rocket from its velocity.

Industrial Engineering
Reliability of manufactured parts over time

Mechanical Engineering
How does the thermal expansion coefficient vary at different temperatures?

Nonlinear Equations

Chemical Engineering
A scale to measure oil in a tank

Civil Engineering
Sagging bookshelves!

Computer Engineering
Divide unit missing in a supercomputer?

Electrical Engineering
Checking calibration curve of a thermistor

General Engineering
How much of the float is submerged?

Industrial Engineering
Mom and Pop shop wants to break even

Mechanical Engineering
Trunnion cool down for a shrink fit

Simultaneous Linear Equations

Chemical Engineering
Liquid-Liquid extraction

Civil Engineering
How much pressure can a compounded cylinder take?

Computer Engineering
To infer the surface shape from images

Electrical Engineering
Finding the unbalance in a 3-phase load system

General Engineering
Finding the velocity profile of a rocket

Industrial Engineering
Maximizing the production schedule

Mechanical Engineering
Find model for thermal expansion vs temperature.

Interpolation

Chemical Engineering
Tea time: time needed to boil the water

Civil Engineering
Tips on bass fishing

Computer Engineering
Short and smoothest path for a robot

Electrical Engineering
Measuring temperature by a thermistor

General Engineering
Predict velocity of a rocket

Industrial Engineering
Profiling a cam

Mechanical Engineering
Calculating the shrinkage of a trunnion correctly

Regression

Chemical Engineering
Infrared spectroscopy

Civil Engineering
Finding the longitudinal Young’s modulus

Computer Engineering
Extraction of road networks in images

Electrical Engineering
Finding the appropriate value for the resistance

General Engineering
Finding the best mousetrap for a mousetrap car

Industrial Engineering
When should the machine be stopped?

Mechanical Engineering
Calculating the contraction of a trunnion

Integration

Chemical Engineering
Time required for oxygen to be consumed in the fuel cell

Civil Engineering
Is the toxicity level of benzene dangerous?

Computer Engineering
To infer the surfaces from vector fields

Electrical Engineering
Confidence in acceptable circuit behavior

General Engineering
Distance covered by a rocket

Industrial Engineering
Are there as many plies of tissue paper in a roll?

Mechanical Engineering
Finding the shrinkage of a trunnion?

Ordinary Differential Equations

Chemical Engineering
Controlling sodium chloride waste while making soap.

Civil Engineering
When is it safe to go back into the lake?

Computer Engineering
Transient analysis of resistor-capacitor system

Electrical Engineering
Sizing a rectifier-based power supply

General Engineering
How much time will it take the ball to cool down?

Industrial Engineering
Speed Control of DC motors

Mechanical Engineering
Contracting a cylinder to shrink fit in to a hub