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Background, purpose and scope, and technical qualifications for users of study guide
Section (1) Fundamental concepts and definitions
Dimensions and conversion of units
Water budgets
Characteristics of earth materials related to hydrogeology
Occurence of subsurface water
Pressure and hydraulic head
Preparation and interpretation of water-table maps
Ground-water/surface-water relations

Section (2) Principles of ground-water flow and storage
Darcy’s law
Transmissivity
Aquifers, confining layers, unconfined and confined flow
Ground-water storage
Ground-water flow equation

Section (3) Description and analysis of ground-water systems Systems concept
Information required to describe a ground-water system
Preliminary conceptualization of a ground-water system
Analysis of ground-water system using flow nets
Regional ground-water flow and depiction of ground-water systems using hydrologic maps and

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Geology and the occurence of ground water
Description of a real ground-water system
Source of water to a pumping well
Role of numerical simulation in analyzing ground-water system

Section (4) Ground-water flow to wells
Concept of ground-water flow to wells
Analysis of flow to a well–introduction to basic analytical solutions
Analysis of flow to a well-applying analytical solutions to specific problems
Concept of superposition and its application to well-hydraulic problems
Aquifier tests

Section (5) Ground-water contamination
Background and field procedures related to ground-water contamination
Physical mechanism of solute transport in ground water

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