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SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Smith,
Dr. Humphreys.
This School offers the following courses:
1. Experimental Physics.—This course is intended to include Elementary
Mechanics, Heat, Electricity, Sound, and Light. Instruction
is given by lectures and text-books, with illustrative experiments.
The losses of apparatus by the recent fire have been more than
repaired, and ample provision is made for experimentation both in the
lecture-room and the laboratory. The members of this class are
expected to perform a graded set of simple exercises in the Physical
Laboratory, the hours for which are accommodated, as far as possible
to the convenience of each student.
2. Mathematical Physics.—In this course selected portions of the
preceding one are more fully developed by the aid of mathematics.
The subjects studied may be changed from session to session, according
to the preparation or the needs of the student. The utmost possible
freedom, consistent with a proper standard as to amount and
quality, is afforded to him. The Laboratory work in this class is more
advanced and extensive than in the preceding class, and aims at the
more exact measurement of physical quantities.
3. Electricity.—This course is distinguished from the preceding, in
being adapted of design to the needs of such as intend to pursue Electrical
Engineering. The book work and the Laboratory exercises have
therefore a practical character. They are intended to cover the first
half of a four years' course of Electrical Engineering.
4. Graduate Work is offered to candidates for the Doctorate of Philosophy
and to others who, for special reasons, may wish to do advanced
work in Physics along special lines. This work will be mainly experimental
and, as far as our resources allow, will be accommodated to the
the advanced work will be issued in a special circular, and may
meanwhile be obtained by correspondence or personal interview.
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, electing this School,
are only required to pass in the class of Experimental Physics.
The course for Master of Arts in this School is that given in the
class of Mathematical Physics.
THE ROUSS PHYSICAL LABORATORY.
This building is now completed, and occupied. Its equipment is such
as to offer unusual facilities for both elementary and advanced practical
work. The working rooms are remarkable for stability, light and
uniformity of temperature. Electricity, gas and water, as well as
steam-heat, are supplied to each of them. The structure was specially
designed to meet the requirements of Practical Physics, and is convenient
within while it is sightly without.
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