Thursday, February 24, 2011

Turbines

Water Wheels,

We made our first little turbine in class today, out of a paper cup and double-layered construction paper blades. I stuck the blades at equal distances around the rim of the of the cup. I oriented the slits that the blades fit in straight up and down on the cup. We did manage to make the cup spin by blowing on it. We are going to build some more designs over the weekend. I am going to focus on a couple of blade shapes and orienting the blades different ways to see how effective different designs are.

WaterWheel 2/24/2011

Water Energy    Copyright © 2010 EnergyBible.com. 2/24/2011

HydroGenerator Project  2/24/2011

Pelton Turbine Videos Copyright © 2011 World News Network 2/24/2011

Newton's Laws  2/24/2011

Hydro Power Project  Copyright © 2011 2/24/2011


Homemade Hydro Power leifjohnston 2/24/2011

How to Build a Hydro Generator  Copyright © 1999-2011 eHow, Inc.2/24/2011

Please see my group mate's blogs to see how we are thinking about the physics behind this project and photos/videos of our progress today!!

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