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1. Consider an ocean current flowing at 2.5m/s
a) How much kinetic energy is contained in a cubic volume of water that measures 1m on each side? The density of seawater is about 1030kg/m3
b) If the flow is perpendicular to one of the cube faces, what is the rate at which the current carries kinetic energy across each square metre? Your answer gives an upper limit for the power that could be extracted from the flow, although it is an unrealistic limit because you’d have to stop the entire flow
2. I am not sure of which equations to use
3. No attempted solution
a) How much kinetic energy is contained in a cubic volume of water that measures 1m on each side? The density of seawater is about 1030kg/m3
b) If the flow is perpendicular to one of the cube faces, what is the rate at which the current carries kinetic energy across each square metre? Your answer gives an upper limit for the power that could be extracted from the flow, although it is an unrealistic limit because you’d have to stop the entire flow
2. I am not sure of which equations to use
3. No attempted solution