600. Practical Geometry. [Thornton.]
This course presupposes good high-school training in plane and solid
geometry and in the rudiments of plane trigonometry. It embraces a
review and extension of the fundamental problems of plane geometry with
applications to the mensuration of rectilinear and curvilinear figures; an
elementary study of the conic sections and of the methods of constructing
these curves; the orthographic projection of polyhedra and of the three
round bodies in erect and oblique positions; sections of curved surfaces by
planes and intersections; the mensuration of solids and Simpson's rule;
the graphical solution of equations; and the theory and use of the Polar
Planimeter. (Fall.)
