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in India. By reading the head you may think of simple dams such as the hirakud dam on river Mahanadi but they are some thing exciting new creation of ours.
CAUSES OF FLOODS
Floods are caused by heavy rains that pour to much water into rivers and other waterways making these natural channels unable to carry all the water . rising water flows over or breaks the banks to the waterways causing surrounding land to be flooded . In india permanent dams cannot be constructed because ytheir main disadvantage is that they do not allow the ships to pass through them . So we have thought of a great solution to such a problem that is the construction of hydraulic dams base d on a great physicist s law blaise pascal. The law is the pascal s law .
PASCALS LAW
pressure created anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all direction ; the force acts at 90 to any surface in contact with the fluid .
APPLICATIONS OF HYDRAULICS
The hydraulic press The hydraulic crane. Even the London bridge on river thames is based on the same law .
gates and both the gates come closer and over lap each other preventing the great flow of flood water. This will not harm the houses and the industries which are created closer to the river banks.
MATERIALS USED
1. Thermocol and cardboard. 2. 2 big syringes of 10 ml each and 2 small syringes of 5ml each. 3. Ships (handmade) 4. Pop for the demo. Of land. 5. Ivory sheet for the demonstration of buildings. 6. toy cars to show the scenetic view of the vehicles which are standing in the parking lot.
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