Date of Award:

5-1961

Document Type:

Dissertation

Degree Name:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department:

Plants, Soils, and Climate

Department name when degree awarded

Soils and Irrigation

Committee Chair(s)

Sterling A. Taylor

Committee

Sterling A. Taylor

Committee

Cleve Milligan

Committee

Herman Wiebe

Committee

Keith Allred

Abstract

The retention of water in soils is a very interesting subject. Soil-water research presents a great challenge to research workers. The challenge is broad in scope and extends from the field problems of large irrigation projects to the atomic scale of the solid-liquid interface.

If scientists are going to describe scientifically soil-water relations, they must ultimately utilize the instruments of science and the language of mathematics. To the end of the latter the mathematics of thermodynamics has been applied in these studies of water retention in soils.

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