Experiment 1:

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February 25, 2010

Procedure

Our experiment consisted of a very simple setup. The manifold we designed is a 10' long, 6" PVC pipe with 1" diameter holes drilled every 5cm. The manifold had water pumped through it at a rate of 3.8 L/sec (roughly 1 gallon/min) and the water flows through a whole 10' section of 6" PVC pipe before it gets to the manifold to ensure that the effects of the pump have dissipated in the pipe. The manifold is suspended 14" above the bed of the flume by U-clamps and the manifold is spaced 7" from the flume wall to make sure that it runs straight in the flume. The ports of the manifold are positioned so that the jets exiting from them run parallel to the bottom of the tank.

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