Week 2

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Week 2

• Terminology Hydraulics review

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Terms

• Porosity
• Moisture content
• Saturation
• Aquifer
• Aquitard
• Aquiclude
• aquifuge

• Water table
• Piezometer
• Head
• Unconfined aquifer
• Confined aquifer
• Potentiometric surface

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Hydraulics review

• Flow rate
• Viscosity
• Gage pressure
• Typical values for water

• Driving force for flow
• Fundamental equations of fluid mechanics
• Head loss formula
• Pressure variation in a static fluid