Geologists are trying to determine the discharge of a river.The stream is semicircular in shape with a width of 10 m and depth of 5 m.They measure the velocity of the river to be 0.2 m/s.What is the discharge of the river? Sketch this cross-section,and show your work.Recall that the area of a circle is πr2,and a semicircle is one-half of that.
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