- 18 Examine The Diagram To The Right Notice The Shape Of The Dam As It Resembles An Incline Just Like The Cart Tracks 1 (288.57 KiB) Viewed 52 times
18. Examine the diagram to the right. Notice the shape of the dam as it resembles an incline, just like the cart tracks. A hydroelectric power facility converts the gravitational potential energy of water behind a dam to electric energy. a) Describe the energy transfers and transformations for the water flowing through the hydroelectric dam from the stored reservoir, through the dam itself, and then discharged out of the bottom of the dam. Click here to enter text. b) Hydroelectricity is generated by storing water behind a dam, and then letting some of it run through generators in the dam to turn them. If the system is the water, what is the environment that is doing work on it? Click here to enter text. c) If a dam has water 100 m deep behind it, how much energy was generated if 10,000 kg of water exited the dam at 2.0 m/s? Click here to enter text.