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Water sprinkler used for grass lawns begins to rotate as soon as the water is supplied.Explain the principle on which it works.?

Newton's third law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

This means that if object A exerts a force on object B, object B exerts an equal force in the opposite direction on object A.

In the water sprinkler, the sprinkler is applying a force on the water, accelerating it as it flies out of the sprinkler. At the same time, the water exerts a force on the sprinkler, causing it to accelerate backwards, which is why it rotates.

This also ties in with conservation of momentum and conservation of energy.

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