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Nodir Musaev
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Hello everyone, currently working on a physics project.
I was very curios about waterwheels and actually have an overshot waterwheel setup. I was testing how the efficiency of a waterwheel would be effected by the drop height of water onto the waterwheel. Do any of you have any idea how I can create a mathematical equation that would explain the findings. By efficiency I mean its ability to convert potential energy into kinetic energy.
I am assuming that by increasing the drop height I am increasing the total energy of the water, but I have researched into topics such as moment of inertia and realized I can find that since I know what distance from the center the water wheel the water hits it at but I realize I would then have to go into angular momentum and then use that calculate the KE through which I can then compare to the original energy given.
I was very curios about waterwheels and actually have an overshot waterwheel setup. I was testing how the efficiency of a waterwheel would be effected by the drop height of water onto the waterwheel. Do any of you have any idea how I can create a mathematical equation that would explain the findings. By efficiency I mean its ability to convert potential energy into kinetic energy.
I am assuming that by increasing the drop height I am increasing the total energy of the water, but I have researched into topics such as moment of inertia and realized I can find that since I know what distance from the center the water wheel the water hits it at but I realize I would then have to go into angular momentum and then use that calculate the KE through which I can then compare to the original energy given.