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Freshman.
9-10, M. W. F.
521. Plane Surveying.
Lecture courses: Theory, uses, and adjustments of compass, level,
transit, and stadia. Special methods of land, city, topographic and mining
surveys. Survey computations and maps.
Field course: Practical use of chain and tape, level, compass, transit,
and stadia. Field notes, records and reports.
523. Mechanical Drawing.
Lecture courses: Plane problems, conic sections, graphic algebra.
Projections of prisms and pyramids; of cylinders, cones and spheres; of the
plane sections and intersections of solid bodies.
Practice course: each week the student executes a finished plate
15″ × 20″ of exercises in mechanical drawing based on the lectures.
523. Descriptive Geometry.
Lecture course: Fundamental problems on the point, line, and plane.
Projections, tangencies, and intersections of curved surfaces. Applications
to shades and shadows, problems in mining, and so on.
Practice course: each student executes a weekly plate 15″ × 20″ of
problems based on the lectures.
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