A compacted soil sample using 10% moisture content has a weight of 200 g and mass unit weight of 2.0 g/cm3. If the specific gravity of soil particles and water are 2.7 and 1.0, the degree of saturation of the soil is

Soil mechanics is the theory of mechanical properties of soils. Foundation engineering - the theory of stability of foundations and construction methods used for their production. This also includes predicting the deformation of the substrate.

The objectives of soil mechanics are (1) to study the physical and mechanical properties of soil, (2) to apply this knowledge for the solution of practical engineering problems, and (3) to replace by scientific methods the empirical ones of design used in foundation and soil engineering in the past.