Juan Guzman's Individual Contribution Page

Fall 2015

This was my first semester on AguaClara and I was placed on the ram pump subteam. My two teammates and I spent a good portion of the semester understanding the complexities of the pump. Once we had a greater understanding of the mechanism by which it functioned and the physics that governed it, we began to test the effect of springs of different lengths and constants on the efficiency of the pump. We were able to confirm the findings from the previous semester's team, chiefly that the pump would only function for a specific range of governing spring forces (the spring stiffness constant, k, multiplied by the distance that the spring was compressed. 

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