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National Exams — May 2017 — 04-Geol-A2 Hydrogeology. Three-hour, open-book exam; any non-communicating calculator permitted. Five questions constitute a complete paper and all five are of equal value; most call for an essay-format answer with clarity and organization counted. Unless stated otherwise, water density is taken as 998 kg/m³, water viscosity as 0.001 kg/m-sec at 20°C, and g as 9.81 m/s².
Reference texts: Freeze & Cherry, Groundwater (Prentice-Hall, 1979) — Darcy's law, specific storage/storativity, the Theis and Thiem well equations, leaky-aquifer (Hantush-Jacob) theory, image-well boundary methods, density-dependent flow, and the Dupuit-Forchheimer approximation with areal recharge; Todd & Mays, Groundwater Hydrology — slug-test (Hvorslev) analysis and unconfined dam-seepage solutions; EGBC Geoscience Professional Practice Guidelines for assumption-disclosure conventions on open-book calculations.
