Six-Minute Solutions for Civil PE Exam Problems: Water Resources PDF

Six-Minute Solutions is essential when you're preparing for the civil PE exam's Water Resources breadth and depth problems. These problems make up about 20 percent of the morning exam and form significant percentages of not only the Water Resources depth module but also the Environmental and Transportation modules.

The 100 practice problems in this book are designed to help you get your solving time down as much as possible. Six minutes per problem is the average amount of time you'll have on the exam. With practice, you can streamline your solving skills and perform your best.

There are 20 morning, breadth-style problems and 80 afternoon, depth-style problems, all in the same multiple-choice format as the exam. Every problem has a hint, which you can use if you need help getting started. In addition to the correct answer, each problem has three incorrect answer choices that are logical distractors, representing mistakes that are easily made in the solving process. Once you've solved a problem, you can compare your work to the correct solution process, which explains step by step how to reach the answer most efficiently. Also provided are the incorrect solutions based on the logical distractors, so you can see where common errors occur.

Six-Minute Solutions covers the range of Water Resources exam topics, including:

Hydraulics: Spillway capacity, Energy dissipation, Energy/continuity equation, Pressure conduit, Open channel flow, Detention/retention ponds, Pump application and analysis, Pipe network analysis, Stormwater collection, Flow rates, Surface water profile, Cavitation, Friction/minor losses, Sub- and supercritical flow, Hydraulic jump, Flow measurement devices, Flow equations, Culvert design, Velocity control

Hydrology: Storm characterization, Storm frequency, Hydrographs, Transpiration, Evaporation, Rainfal intensity and duration, Runoff analysis, Gauging stations, Flood plain/floodway, Sedimentation

Water Treatment: Demands, Hydraulic loading, Storages (raw and treated water), Rapid mixing, Flocculation Sedimentation, Filtration, Disinfection