Easy Sciece Project for Kids - Making of a Water Turbine

Easy Science Project Idea for Kids - Making of a Water Turbine

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You may curious about How to make a water turbine? by a very simple idea and with affordable  material.  Water Turbine model thay I am going to show is very Simple. But do you know what is a water turbine?

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What is a Water turbine?

A water turbine is a rotatory machine that converts kinetic energy and potential energy of water into mechanical work. Can't Understand kinentic energy and potential energy? Don't wory i will help you to understand through this project work of making a water turbine.

How to make a Water Turbine? A very simple method for students.

NECESSARY MATERIALS:

1. A plastic bottle of big size.
2. A big vessel.
3. Water.
4. Table or desk.
5. A round piece of thin tin.
6. Stiff wire.
7. A block of wood.
8. A refill of ball pen.

METHOD - making of a water turbine:

Cut the piece of tin as shown in the picture and fold the parts to same direction.

Model : Making of water turbine

Make a hole through its centre and enter the refill through it tightly. Then set the wire Upright in the wooden block with the help of a peg (picture C) and bend it a X and Y at 90° as shown in the picture.

Model : Making of water turbine 

Before bending at X, entre the wire through the refill with the  wheel. Make a small hole in the lower surface of the bottol. Put a big vessel below the table and place the prepared object (C) into the vessel. Now, fill water water in the bottle and put it on the table in such a position that water coming through the hole may fall right on the fans (folded part) of the round piece of tin. Now, our Water Turbine is ready to rotate and the wheel (turbine) will start to rotate.

Model : Making of a Water Turbine 

You could modify this model to produce Electricity. This Project is for kids so I did't make it complex.Visit here for more details.

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REASON : Why Turbine rotate with the flow of water?

Sreaming Coming through the hole contains kinetics energy, and when the stram fall on a fan of the wheel, the later comes into motion and moves downwards, meanwhile the next fan comes under the stream which also pressed by the stream. This process till the stream falls. As, a result, the wheel (turbine) rotates.

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