1. General Physics.
Junior Class.—The Junior Class meets three times each week
throughout the session of nine months. The object of the course of
lectures to this class is to furnish the student with a comprehensive
view of Modern Physics and to make him familiar with its methods
of investigation. With the design of laying a thoroughly scientific
basis for the course, a large space is given at the outset to the discussion
of the cardinal doctrines of motion, force and energy, and to
their simpler applications, in the pressure and motion of visible
masses.
With this preparation the student proceeds to the subject of Molecular
Physics, embracing Sound, Light, Heat and Electricity.
Throughout the course the established laws of motion and force are
kept steadily in view, and an attempt is made to exhibit the evidence,
daily becoming stronger and clearer, for the prevalent belief among
scientists, that the entire body of Physics is a coherent and harmonious
system of mechanical truth.
Text-Books.—The Professor's Syllabus. Treatise on Nat. Phil.: by
Privat Deschanel.
Senior Class.—This class meets twice each week, and studies Mechanics
and Astronomy.
Text-Books.—Parkinson's Mechanics, in conjuction with the Professor's
Syllabus. Norton's Astronomy, with Chauvenet's Astronomy, for
reference.
Candidates for graduation in the school of Natural Philosophy are
required to attend only the foregoing classes.
