Sunday, October 30, 2011

Water treatment operator study info: Algae are primitive plants that have no true leaves, stems, or root systems. In drinking water, they can cause problems in taste, filter clogging and trihalomethane formation.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Water Distillaton

Build a Lab Quality Distillation Apparatus
This is a link to a project from one of my all-time favorite websites www.instructables.com

If you really want to get your geek on you have hundreds of projects to pick from!
Fact you probably don't need to know: English mathematician Thomas Harriot in 1591, notes that snow flakes have six sides.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Hydraulic jump over a weir



This video is a simple Hydraulic jump explanation.

For more info about jumps Wikipedia has a very lengthy and informative post. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_jump

Wednesday, October 19, 2011