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Lecture 1: Sediment characteristics
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Lecture 2: Settling
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Lecture 3: Fluid flow, boundary layers, and turbulence
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Lecture 4: Roughness; bedforms
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Lecture 5: Threshold for transport
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Lecture 6: Bedload transport
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Lecture 7: Form drag and skin friction
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Lecture 8 and 9: Suspended sediment transport.
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Notes: Lecture 9
Lecture10: Erosion and Deposition
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Lecture 11: Sediment / Organism Interactions
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Problem set review:
Problem Set 1
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