Question: Water discharges into a rectangular horizontal channel from a sluice gate and undergoes a hydraulic jump. The channel is 25-m-wide and the flow depth and

Water discharges into a rectangular horizontal channel from a sluice gate and undergoes a hydraulic jump. The channel is 25-m-wide and the flow depth and velocity before the jump are 2 m and 9 m/s, respectively. The flow depth after the jump is

(a) 1.26 m 

(b) 2 m 

(c) 3.61 m 

(d) 4.83 m

(e) 6.55 m

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