Water Flows Through a 5 Cm Diameter Pipe at the Focus

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Essay

Water flows through a 5 cm diameter pipe at the focus of a 2 m wide parabolic trough reflector that is 5 m long at a rate of 0.2 L/s. If the insolation is 500 W/m² and all of the solar energy is converted into heat, what is the increase in the temperature of the water after it has traversed the length of the reflector?

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