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Harnessing Hydropower with a Waterwheel

This document discusses harnessing energy from water through hydropower. It explains that hydropower uses the motion of water and gravity to generate mechanical energy, which can then be used to produce electricity or lift objects. The document then describes an experiment where students will build a simple water wheel out of household materials to demonstrate how pouring water onto it can convert the water's kinetic energy into rotational energy of the water wheel, lifting an attached weight. The overall goal is to better understand how hydropower works by generating motion from a water source.

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Harnessing Hydropower with a Waterwheel

This document discusses harnessing energy from water through hydropower. It explains that hydropower uses the motion of water and gravity to generate mechanical energy, which can then be used to produce electricity or lift objects. The document then describes an experiment where students will build a simple water wheel out of household materials to demonstrate how pouring water onto it can convert the water's kinetic energy into rotational energy of the water wheel, lifting an attached weight. The overall goal is to better understand how hydropower works by generating motion from a water source.

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CONCEPT PAPER OF GROUP 4

• Energy can be made, or generated, using solids, gas or liquids


as its source of power. So how do you use energy? Energy can
be generated to produce light, heat, or the movement of
objects. In this experiment, we explore how to get power from
water, or hydropower, which can be used to pick up household
objects.
• Hydropower is mechanical energy that is generated by using
the motion of water caused by gravity. Hydropwer is one of the
oldest forms of energy and has been used by humans since
4000 B.C. By learning how to make a water wheel with a
handful of household materilas, we too can harness, or capture,
different amounts of water to generate our own power.
• The meaning of this project is to further understand the process of
hydropower. The energy from the water being poured will be
converted into mechanical energy resulting in lifting the given weight.
• Our experiment focuses on the turbine, the method in which the kinetic
energy of the water is transformed into mechanical energy, which can
be used as electricity. It’s a simple yet efficient and green method for
harnessing the natural energies of the water in rivers and lakes.
• Hydroelectric is currently the largest, most reliable, and inexpensive
source for renewable, clean energy in the U.S. So if we use this kind
of energy here in the Philippines, dirty waters like in Manila Bay will
be a useful material in this experiment. it is not required in our
requirements to use clean or dirty water. Important is the pressure of
the water.
• It starts by creating a waterwheel using an ordinary tin pan.
Using two of it and stapled them together and cut and fold the
tin into crease panels so that it will catch the water when it falls.
The waterwheel is then placed on a dowel over a bucket. The
wheel is taped tight to the dowel so that when the water hits it
the wheel won’t shake and the dowel is loosely fitted on the
bucket so that it can rotate.
• The objective of this experiment is to lift the weight using only
energy provided by the water source, which is a pitcher of
water being poured into a funnel. The string attached to the
dowel, begins to wind itself, carrying the weight upwards as it
shortens.

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