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REN R 540 - Advanced Soil Physics

★ 3 (fi 6) (second term, 3-0-3) Physical principles of water, solutes, and heat transport in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum; formulation and solution of mathematical equations describing the dynamic interactions among water, solutes, heat, soil matrix and plants; application of physical theories at the field scale, including effects of the soil spatial variability and preferential flow. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisites: A course in calculus and a course in one of the following: soil physics, soil mechanics, hydrogeology, physics or thermodynamics. Credit may be obtained for only one of REN R 540 or SOILS 540.