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SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.

Professor Thornton.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: Mathematics
3B or the equivalent.

For Undergraduates.

Course 1B: Theoretical Mechanics: The class meets three times a
week. The topics treated in successive terms are as follows:

Fall Term.—The fundamental laws of motion, force, and energy and
their applications to the Statics of material particles and solid bodies.

Winter Term.—The dynamics of the particle and an elementary
study of moments of inertia and the dynamics of the rigid body.

Spring Term.—The fundamental laws of pressure and motion in fluids.
The principles of hydrostatics. Theoretical and practical hydraulics.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Mechanical Laboratory.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course 2C: Analytical Mechanics: The class meets three times a
week. The topics treated in successive terms are as follows:

Fall Term.—Analytical Statics, including the theory of Attractions
and the Potential.

Winter Term.—Dynamics of the particle and of systems of particles

Spring Term.—Dynamics of the rigid body. Balancing of Machines.

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Mechanical Laboratory.

Primarily for Graduates.

Course 3D: Mixed Mathematics: The work offered will be varied
from time to time, but the topics will be selected from the following
groups. Hours by appointment.

• I. Attractions. Figure of the Earth. Higher Geodesy.

• II. Theory of Elasticity.

• III. Hydrodynamics.