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II. Practical Physics.

This course is for students preparing to become teachers of science, or
desiring to push their studies in Physics beyond the limits of the undergraduate
course. The instruction is partly theoretical and partly experimental,
embracing the following topics:

Theoretical.—Reduction of observations; Graphical representation of
results; Interpolation; Method of Least Squares; Essays on prescribed Physical
topics.

Experimental.—In this, the main portion of the course, the student
will learn physical manipulation, and the use of instruments by actual practice
in the Physical Laboratory. (See page 65.) (1.) Lecture-room Apparatus
and Lecture-room Experiments. (2.) Physical Measurements and
"Instruments of Precision."

Text-books.—Chauvenet's Method of Least Squares; Kohlrausch's Physical Measurements.