Question: A river flows in a 1 0 m wide rectangular cement channel. Velocity is observed to double in a constriction caused by a bridge (

A river flows in a 10m wide rectangular cement channel. Velocity is observed to double in a constriction caused by a bridge (water level stays the same). During a flood condition, the depth of water upstream of the bridge is measured to be 2m, and the velocity is estimated to be 1.5 m/s. What is (a) the width of the channel at the bridge; (b) the volume flow rate of water through the bridge (in m3/s) during the flood and (c) the velocity of flow at the bridge during flood conditions? Assume that the upstream and bridge water depth are the same (Not necessarily completely true, but a good first assumption).

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