You are working for a big engineering company. The company has a project on building achannel, and you are a junior engineer in that project. The designed channel has a rectangularcross-section (B=20m and H=10m as shown in the Figure 1) and carries water from a hill to avalley which produces a flow rate of 5 m³/sec of rainwater. The steady-state flow rate equationis given by0.48(20h)5/3V(t)=(20+2h)²/3a) Use the bisection method of finding roots of equations to find the height of the water inthe channel in order to get a flow rate of 5 m³/sec.b) Use the secant method of finding roots of equations to find the height of the water in thechannel in order to get a flow rate of 5 m³/sec.c) What is your observation on both methods** The calculation is in 2 decimal point and given e=0.1H=10 mhB =20 mFigure 1: A channel

You are working for a big engineering company. The company has a project on building a channel, and you are a junior engineer in that project. The designed channel has a rectangular cross-section (B=20m and H=10m as shown in the Figure 1) and carries water from a hill to a valley which produces a flow rate of 5 m/sec of rainwater. The steady-state flow rate equation is given by 0.48(20h)5/3 (20+2h)²/3 V(t)= a) Use the bisection method of finding roots of equations to find the height of the water in the channel in order to get a flow rate of 5 m/sec. b) Use the secant method of finding roots of equations to find the height of the water in the channel in order to get a flow rate of 5 m³/sec. c) What is your observation on both methods ** The calculation is in 2 decimal point and given e=0.1 H=10 m h B =20 m

You are working for a big engineering company. The company has a project on building a channel, and you are a junior engineer in that project. The designed channel has a rectangular cross-section (B=20m and H=10m as shown in the Figure 1) and carries water from a hill to a valley which produces a flow rate of 5 m/sec of rainwater. The steady-state flow rate equation is given by 0.48(20h)5/3 (20+2h)²/3 V(t)= a) Use the bisection method of finding roots of equations to find the height of the water in the channel in order to get a flow rate of 5 m/sec. b) Use the secant method of finding roots of equations to find the height of the water in the channel in order to get a flow rate of 5 m³/sec. c) What is your observation on both methods ** The calculation is in 2 decimal point and given e=0.1 H=10 m h B =20 m

Structural Analysis

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Author:KASSIMALI, Aslam.

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Chapter2: Loads On Structures

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