Flume Hydraulics and Sediment Transport Lab
Leonard Sklar
, San Francisco State University
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This page first made public: May 22, 2008
Summary
This exercise is intended to help link the observations of water and sediment
motion that student made in the laboratory flume with the theory discussed in
lecture.
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Description of the activity/assignment
This exercise is intended to help link the observations of water and sediment motion that student made in the laboratory flume with the theory discussed in lecture. Students use the measurements made to ask some basic questions about what happened in the flume as the discharge was varied by a factor of two.
Designed for a geomorphology courseDetermining whether students have met the goals
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- Activity Description/Assignment (Acrobat (PDF) 144kB May22 08)
