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Soil physics involves the quantification of soil constituents and arrangement. This process necessarily involves what could be termed The ''Architecture of the Soil'', that is the geometrical arrangement or pattern of the soil components.
Soil physics studies the properties and processes of materials in the soil. The area of soil physics span from the physical description of soil particles, soil aggregates, into the storage and transport phenomena of water, gas, heat, and solute in soil.

The examples of the area of research:
  • Measurement of soil moisture content in the field: The use of electromagnetic and dielectric properties of soil. e.g. Time Domain Reflectometer, Capacitance Probe.

  • Modelling the transport of water, air, heat and solute in the soil and porous medium.

  • Characterization of mechanical properties in soil.

  • Management of soil water and irrigation.

  • Description and modelling of soil pore distribution.



PROMINENT SOIL PHYSICISTS



  • John R. Philip (1927-1999)

  • :Analytical solution to general soil water transport, Environmental Mechanics.



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