AQUA X 3000 By: Isabel Chen 5c Ms.

Barton

Mrs. Baston , your principal, has concerns about the availability of running water at the school. She has asked you, Ms. Bartons Grade 11 Physics students, to design a digital logic circuit to activate a water pump motor for a water storage tank located on the roof of the Second Form block. You will present your designs to the school board in the form of a bid for selection on January 5, 2011.

The system should be able to do the following: 1. Sound an alarm when there is no supply water from the National Water Commission (N.W.C.), activates the water pump motor to maintain the water pressure from the water storage tank to the building. 2. Sound an alarm when the water supply from the N.W.C. is low, activates the water pump motor to fill the water storage tank and also to maintain the water pressure. 3. Not sound an alarm or activate the water pump motor when the supply from the N.W.C. is available and the water pressure is high.

A 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

B 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1

C 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

Let A represent the input :No water supply from the National Water Commission (N.W.C.) Let B represent the input: Low water supply from the N.W.C. Let C represent the input: Water at high pressure from the N.W.C. Eliminate all impossible situations such as (1,0,1,) which means that conditions A and C are both present. This leaves you with

A 0 0 1

B 0 1 0

C 1 0 0

Alarm 0 1 1

We do not want the alarm to sound when there is the condition of high water pressure (condition C) so a logic circuit system was designed to solve this problem

AQUA X 3000
0
1

0 0 1 1 1 1 0

1
0

1 1

Alarm
0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1

Water Pump

This is how it will be set up on the compound. The pressure from N.W.C.s main pipe will be measured. This measurement will be sent to the system as inputs. The AQUA X 3000 will then process these inputs to send the different messages to the alarm and the water pump. In this system the water storage tank will always be full as the water goes from main supply through the pump into the water tank then to the building. This means that the building will always be provided with water at a high pressure regardless of the pressure of the water coming from the main.

ENJOY!

Resources: Physics for C.X.C. by Peter Whiteley http://www.wellesley.edu/Physics/Rberg/logochip/docs/219La bNotes/Labnotes11.pdf > pages (1 to 7) http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/basics/digital-basics.htm