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Introduction To Hydraulics & Hydrology

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Im yet to get this book in the mail, its been a couple months. I dont know if it wasnt sent yet or what.

This was recommended to me to help prepare for a PLS exam. Maybe this is easy to follow if you have a civil engineering background (although if that were the case, I'm not sure why you'd be interested in an "Introduction" to this subject), but the author makes numerous apparent leaps and assumptions and introduces unqualified variables that frankly make this extremely difficult for a non-engineer like me to follow, especially without the aid of an instructor to fill in the gaps or answer any questions. The end of chapter problems are useless, because there aren't any solutions provided, and the CD-Rom that contains them apparently costs around $200. So I'm still searching for a surveyor-friendly book on this subject, but I feel I can say without further qualification that this isn't it, so I'd say steer clear on this one and save yourself a considerable chunk of money.

This book is intended for people with little or no knowledge of hydraulics, however it assumes that the reader/learner knows more.

When you look at the texts out there this is actually somewhat better (not that that is good) than others.

The problems given make you refer to recent chapters written so the flow or organised/condensed chapters can throw a student off balance. Frequent references to the index(s) are needed but that is expected to a degree.

Most examples are not explained fully, again assumes the student is mid-level of knowledge of hydraulics. Several key elements from many examples are lacking important information to solve equations.

This is not an easy subject to grasp without the help of a quality teaching intructor, luckly I had one that cared enough to fill in the many gaps.