GEGN 466/467
EXPECTATIONS
FOR EXAM I
- be
able to summarize the major canons of the engineering code of ethics
- for
any hydrologic system Or subset of such system: recognize the components of
the water budget, estimate their magnitude, and balance the budget
- manipulate relationships
between porosity (total & effective) - specific yield - specific retention
- capillarity - storage coefficient AND estimate these items from material
descriptions
- manipulate hydraulic
conductivity units
- estimate effective
hydraulic conductivity of a heterogeneous material
- identify situations
in which Darcy’s law is valid
- be able to identify
the values for terms of Darcy’s law in any setting and calculate any
term once the others have been determined
- determine the value
of hydraulic head in simple systems and relate this head to pressure
- interpret head distribution
to identify ground-water flow patterns
- recognize what a
given head measurement represents and know if it is appropriate for use in
the analysis at hand
- know
how to set up analytical solutions to the flow equations to represent a particular
problem and calculate heads and flows
- be able to draw and
interpret flow nets, and use them to evaluate pressure conditions and estimate
volumetric flow through the system
-
be able to construct a "natural" flow net from field head data
- be
able to interpret ground-water flow conditions (recharge/discharge areas &
flow patterns)
-
use a flow net constructed from field head measurements to interpret conditions
in a flow system (including multiple interpretations for non-unique situations)
You may bring 3 pieces
of paper with you to the exam with as much written on them as you wish, both sides,
small print etc. Creating such a sheet helps you study and provides the equivalent
of an "open-book" exam without the problem of spending too much time paging through
the book.