Anan important step prior to any experiment is to develop the equations to connect what you want to know where the variable of interest to what you were able to directly measure often the VOI is not something you have the means to measure directly doing this before the lab ensures that you identify all necessary measurements before the experiment is run, and the development of these equations is often included in the theory section of a lab reportand in the lab the prompts ask you to calculate the force exerted on the sluice gate determine the equation to calculate this force in the form of R$=$f$($x$1,$x$2,$x$3,...,$xn$)$ elWhere R is the force of the sluice gate and it is a function of your measurements x$1$ through xn