 | The University of Virginia record February, 1909 |  |
SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Adjunct Professor Hoxton.
Dr. Guthrie.
Mr. Butl
Mr. Reeves.
Mr. West.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The general
entrance examination, which must, for this School, include Mathematics
D and E.
Course 1B: General Physics.—This course is intended to include
Elementary Mechanics, Sound, Light, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism.
Instruction is given by lectures and text-books, with illustrative
experiments and numerical problems. The student is expected to spend,
during the greater part of each term, from five to six hours a week in the
laboratory, performing simple quantitative experiments, of which written
reports are to be submitted. This includes one hour, set apart for
quizzing.
Course 2C: Electricity and Magnetism: Course 1B and Mathematics
2B prerequisite.—The elements of the mathematical theory are developed,
making free use of the methods of the calculus, beginning, however,
with fundamental principles of the subject. Laboratory work more advanced
than that in Course 1B will be required, occupying the student from
four to six hours a week, and aiming at the more exact measurement of
the chief physical quantities here dealt with.
Course 3C: Optics: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B prerequisite.—
The same general remarks apply to this as to Course 2C.
Course 4D: Spectroscopy: Course 3C prerequisite.—Theory and use
of the spectroscope and its application to physical and astronomical problems.
A Laboratory Fee of five dollars is required for each course.
The Rouss Physical Laboratory was designed to meet the requirements
of practical physics. The building throughout is characterized
by structural stability. The student and other laboratory work rooms
are abundantly lighted, while some may be darkened at will. This is
from the lecture table, and which, moreover, is otherwise adequately arranged
for experimental demonstration. There is a general distribution
of water over the building, while all the rooms are supplied with steam
heat, gas, and electricity.
The equipment, besides that for elementary practical work and an unusually
rich stock of apparatus for lecture experiments in general physics,
includes a special line of electrical and optical instruments, a 21½ ft.
concave grating with Rowland mounting, photographic dark room, liquid-air
plant, and storage battery, and a machine shop for the repair and
building of physical apparatus. For advanced practical work in some
lines the facilities offered are exceptional.
| The University of Virginia record February, 1909 | |