University of Virginia Library

IV. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

Professor Rogers.—There are two classes in this school, viz:—The
general or Junior, and the Senior class. In the former, the illustrations
are experimental and graphical, with occasional references to the elementary
truths of Geometry and Algebra. In the latter mathematical demonstration
is almost exclusively employed, sometimes involving the use of the
calculus.

The various subjects embraced in this school are treated of in the following
order, viz.

Mechanics, including Statics, Dynamics, Laws of Impulse and Pressure,
and Corpuscular Forces, Strength of Materials, Friction and Machinery;
Hydrodynamics, including Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Capillary Attraction,
&c.—Pneumatics; Acoustics; Heat, including Meteorology and the Steam
Engine; Electricity and Galvanism; Magnetism; Electro-Magnetism;
Optics; Astronomy.

The text-books referred to in the Junior Class, are Lardner's Mechanics,
Hydrostatics and Pneumatics; Brewter's Optics, by Bache—Herschell's
Astronomy—Lardner on the Steam Engine, and the Treatises in the Library
of Useful Knowledge on Mechanics, Hydrostatics and Hydraulics,
Pneumatics, Heat, Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, and Electro Magnetism.
The text-books in the senior class are the Cambridge Mechanics,
Young's Analytical Mechanics, Gummere's Astronomy, Bache's Appendix
to Brewster's Optics.

In the senior class the students are examined upon the subjects of lecture
in the general class, as well as the Mathematical demonstrations referred
to in their text-books.

The Apparatus provided for the school of Natural Philosophy is extensive
and complete, and enables the Professor to illustrate every part of his
course by experiments in the presence of his class. An Observatory, with
its appropriate astronomical instruments, is attached to this school.