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Class of Practical Physics.
Arrangements are now making to accommodate those students
who, expecting to be teachers of Science, or for other reasons, desire
to acquaint themselves practically with the details of Physical Manipulation.
These accommodations will, it is hoped, be enlarged as
the demand for them augments. The course of instruction will be
partly experimental and partly theoretical. For the present, the subjects
presented will be these:
A. Experimental.—1. Study of the Construction, Management and
Preservation of Physical Apparatus. The student will take apart,
examine and put together various philosophical instruments, and
will carefully repeat with them the experiments performed in the
lecture room.
2. Use of "Instruments of Precision."—Measurement of length, of
differences of altitude, of volume; Calibration of tubes; Specific
Gravity of solids and liquids; Measurement of small intervals of
time by revolving mirror; of number of vibrations of sounding
bodies by Sirene, Monochord and revolving mirror or screen; of Curvature
and focal distances of mirrors and lenses; Manipulation and
use of the Telescope, Microscope and Spectroscope; Daily Observations
with Meteorological Instruments; Determination of the errors
of instruments.
B. Theoretical.—Reduction of Observations; Interpolation; Graphical
representation of results; Method of least squares; Essays on
prescribed physical topics.
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