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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).]