Week 3 Reflection--Jun Jie

In this week, we have discussed on the main focus of the project, which is to give the members a better understanding of hydroelectricity and its concept, like how to calculate it and the factors affecting it.

Some questions that are still going around in my head:

What materials are we gonna use to replace those that are used on an actual life size boat?

How are we going to substitute the turbine with a turbine that is smaller?

3 things that I learnt:

1) The formulae to calculate hydroelectricity is P = ρhrgk

2) The turbine that we have to installed is known as Hydraulic Turbine

3) Water turbines are divided into two groups; reaction turbines and impulse turbines.

Ideas I agree with:

In order to power the boat, we have to find the amount of energy required to run the boat first before we can find out the speed at which the boat should move in order to gather enough water which would turn the turbine.