600 Practical Geometry. [Thornton.]
Lectures 11-12, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
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; the mensuration of solids and Simpson's rule; the graphical
solution of equations, both algebraic and transcendental; and the
theory and use of the Polar Planimeter.
[Required, Fall, in Courses I, II, III, IV, V (1).]
