B. A. COURSE.
General Mechanics.—In this course, which comprises the work in
Mechanics for the B. A. degree, the subjects studied are Statics,
Strength of Materials, Graphical Statics, Hydrostatics, the Elementary
Dynamics of a Particle, and of a Rigid Body. Elementary mathematical
methods are employed, but no student is prepared to undertake
the course who has not a sound working knowledge of Algebra, Geometry,
and Plane Trigonometry, with the elements of Analytical Geometry.
Text-Books.—Jessop's Applied Mathematics; Jacoby's Graphical Statics;
Greene's Structural Mechanics; Lectures.
