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Spring. 3 credits. Prerequisites: One year of college physics and CSS (SCAS) 483 or permission of instructor. S-U grades optional. Offered alternate years. Next offered spring 2002. Hours to be arranged. P.C. Baveye.
A detailed study of measurement processes and of the hydrostatics of aqueous solutions in soils and
porous media, with emphasis on fundamental principles. Examination of the molecular aspects of
water-solid interactions, including shrink-swell phenomena, and the properties of absorbed water.
Analysis of namical and mechanistic (molecular) standpoints. Mechanical and thermodynamical
analysis of the equilibrium status of aqueous solutions in deformable soils. Formal lectures are
complemented by tutorial sessions.