{"id":104,"date":"2020-12-27T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T19:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/chapter\/problem-5-solution\/"},"modified":"2020-12-27T23:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T23:13:58","slug":"problem-5-solution","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/chapter\/problem-5-solution\/","title":{"raw":"Problem 5 Solution","rendered":"Problem 5 Solution"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"problem-5-solution\">\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><strong>Question:<\/strong> What is the elevation of the water level surface in the inclined wells?<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> The water level is equal to the hydraulic head at the point of measurement (the screen interval), which is indicated by the potentiometric contour line. The orientation of the piezometer is of no consequence.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/12\/image49.png\" alt=\"Figure for solution to Example Problem 5\" width=\"661\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/chapter\/hydraulics-of-flow-in-unconfined-aquifers\/#ExampleProblem5\"><span class=\"import-Hyperlink\">Return to Example Problem 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"problem-5-solution\">\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><strong>Question:<\/strong> What is the elevation of the water level surface in the inclined wells?<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> The water level is equal to the hydraulic head at the point of measurement (the screen interval), which is indicated by the potentiometric contour line. The orientation of the piezometer is of no consequence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/12\/image49.png\" alt=\"Figure for solution to Example Problem 5\" width=\"661\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/chapter\/hydraulics-of-flow-in-unconfined-aquifers\/#ExampleProblem5\"><span class=\"import-Hyperlink\">Return to Example Problem 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":19,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-104","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":155,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/104\/revisions\/247"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/155"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/104\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/conceptual-and-visual-understanding-of-hydraulic-head-and-groundwater-flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}