How much water flow is need for a 1 Gigawatt hydroelectric power plant? How
many Niagara Falls is this?
Niagra Falls has an average flow rate of about 2400 m3/s.
NOTE: All numbers must be entered as 5000 or 5e3 or 5.0e3 and not with commas as in “5,000” and not as fractions as in “3/4” and not as percentages as in “70%”.
Questions:
1) Estimate the acceleration due to gravity (in m per s2).
2) Estimate the height water typically falls from a dam or natural waterfall (in m).
3) Estimate the density of water (in kg per m3).
4) Estimate the flow rate of water (in m3 per sec) needed for a 1 GigaWatt hydroelectric power plant.
5) Using the hint provided, estimate how many Niagra Falls is your estimated flow rate?
Please help me solve these and break them down with the formulas used