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N-GEO\APPENDIX.PM5 915APPENDICES 915
Vv : Volume of voids (Ch. 2)
Vw : Volume of water in the voids (Ch. 2)
V 1 ,V 2 : Velocity of shock waves (Ch. 18)
v : Terminal velocity (Ch. 3)
Velocity of flow (Chs. 5, 6 & 19)
Velocity of shock waves (Ch. 18)
Velocity of tup before impact (Ch. 20)
vc : Lower critical velocity (Ch. 5)
va : Velocity of anvil (Ch. 20)
vs : Seepage velocity (Ch. 5)
vo : Initial velocity of anvil (Ch. 20)
v 1 : Velocity of tup after impact (Ch. 20)
W : Total weight of soil mass (Ch. 2)
Weight of soil slice (Ch. 9)
Weight of soil wedge (Ch. 13)
Maximum wheel load (Ch. 17)
Wa : Weight of air (negligible) (Ch. 2)
Weight of anvil (Ch. 20)
Wd : Weight of dry soil (Ch. 2)
WD : Weight of soil finer than size D (Ch. 3)
Wf : Weight of fine soil fraction out of a total soil sample taken for combined
sieve and sedimentation analysis (Ch. 3)
Wh : Weight of pile hammer (Ch. 16)
Wi : Initial weight of soil sample (Ch. 3)
Wk : Weight of kentledge (Ch. 19)
Wm : Weight of soil sample at shrinkage limit (Ch. 3)
Wp : Weight of solids in pipette sample (Ch. 3)
Ws : Weight of solids (Ch. 2)
(Ws)sub : Submerged weight of soil solids (Ch. 2)
Wt : Weight of tup (Ch. 20)
Wv : Weight of material occupying void space (Ch. 2)
Ww : Weight of water (Ch. 2)
w : Water content (Ch. 2)
Weight of dipersing agent (Ch. 3)
Regime width of waterway (Ch. 19)
Water content corresponding to a penetration α (Ch. 3)
wi : Initial water content (Ch. 3)
wL : Liquid (LL)
wo : Optimum moisture content (Ch. 12)