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LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Control Volumes
Mass Balance
Advective/Dispersive Transport
 
2 Chemical Equilibria
Mass Action
Electroneutrality
Mass Conservation
 
3 Chemical Kinetics
Partitioning
Problem Set 1: Exercise 1-1, 6, 8, 19, 22 due
4 River Transport  
5 Lakes and Wetlands
Estuaries
Problem Set 2: Exercise 1-5, 12, 15, 25, 27 due
6 Sediment Transport
Bottom Sediments
Paleolimnology
 
7 Air-Water Exchange Problem Set 3: Exercise 2-1, 4, 20, 21, 30 due
8 Major Ion Chemistry of Natural Waters  
9 Ecosystem Characteristics
Redox Chemistry
Problem Set 4: Exercise 2-6, 11, 32, 47, 58 due
10 Redox Chemistry in Ecosystems  
11 BOD/DO Modeling
Microbial Kinetics
Problem Set 5: Exercise 2-17, 35, 52, 56, 57 due
12 Photochemistry
Hydrolysis
 
  Quiz 1  
13 Groundwater and Aquifers
Darcy's Law
Flow Nets
 
14 Wells
Superposition
Capture Curves
Problem Set 6: Exercise 2-26 and
Exercise 3-1, 2, 7, 9 due
15 Transient Well Hydraulics
Transport and Retardation
 
16 Unsaturated Zone Flow
NAPL
Problem Set 7: Exercise 3-30, 31, 33, 38, 41 due
17 Biodegradation
Bioremediation
 
18 Atmospheric Structure
Adiabatic Lapse Rates
Problem Set 8: Exercise 3-14, 16, 23, 36, 37 due
19 Global, Synoptic, Local Scale Circulation  
20 Gaussian Plume Modeling
Deposition Processes
Problem Set 9: Exercise 4-5, 6, 14, 36, 37 due
21 Tropospheric Chemistry
Acid Deposition
 
22 Stratospheric Chemistry
Radiative Activity of Gases
Problem Set 10: Exercise 4-3, 27, 32, 40, 42 due
23 Court Case I  
24 Court Case II Problem Set 11: Exercise 4-26, 28, 30 due