Mathematics in Water Pumps and Pumping Systems

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Often along the aisles of learning, mathematics has been regarded as a rather difficult subject. This notion has so long pervaded the minds of many youth that even today, many are apparently afraid of taking the challenge of taking up courses along these lines. Despite such thoughts, math and its applications in physics and engineering have continued to shed light along the paths of technological advancement. Particularly with the development of water pumps and piping systems, the evidence has grown big enough in order for the interested to find no reason to cast doubts against the power and relevance of mathematics again. One reason that can be argued in favor of math is the application of differential equations in problem solving. Word problems commonly used in the academe in order to illustrate the teachers points are actually borrowed from industrial and engineering settings where these problems are commonly faced. Calculations for the initial values that had to be set up for certain machines needed the power of those differential equations. While technology has gone to as far as letting computers take care of the calculations instead of leaving out the task to the naked human brain, there are times when the water pump had to be operated in terms of estimates that only a mathematical mind can muster. One of the challenges that lift up the power and the utility of a mathematically enhanced brain over the apparent dependence on programming tools is the case of meeting power surges. Mechanical submersible pumps and other mechanically operated machines would need attention at all times during the plant operation. Again, if calculations are needed, the human brain, if never afraid with mathematics, would have the fullest capacity to fulfill the task of doing the work of the invented machine, whether in the absence of electricity or in its presence. While it might have appeared that the human brains capacity has been the one defended, it is mathematics that would actually remain honored in either of the cases.

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Now, it is not only differential equations that have helped build up the reputation and the relevance of mathematics in the minds of men and in the fields of learning and applications. More can be said about the usefulness of the integral methods, functional algebra, maxima and minima concepts, graphical and approximation methods, matrices, complex analyses, mathematical physics, engineering sciences and other related subjects. For water pumps and pipes, much can be mathematically said about how they were first conceptualized, constructed, operated and maintained. In conclusion, it has been found that the lifeblood of pumps and piping systems is in mathematics, which, by the way, is also the lifeblood of the rest of them that are in physics and engineering combined.

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