From reviews of the first edition:
"well organized . . . Recommended as an introductory text for undergraduates" -- AAAS Science Books and Films

"well written and illustrated" -- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

This innovative study presents concepts and problems in soil physics, and provides solutions using original computer programs. It provides a close examination of physical environments of soil, including an analysis of the movement of heat, water and gases. The authors employ the programming language Python, which is now widely used for numerical problem solving in the sciences. In contrast to the majority of the literature on soil physics, this text focuses on solving, not deriving, differential equations for transport. Using numerical procedures to solve differential equations allows the...