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SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.

Professor Thornton.

Adjunct Professor Echols.

The work of this School is divided between the Academical and the Engineering
Departments. In the former the following courses are offered, each
of three lectures a week:

General Mechanics.—In this course, which comprises the work in Mechanics
for the B. A. degree, the subjects studied are Statics, Strength of Materials,
Graphical Statics, and the elementary Dynamics of a particle and a rigid
body. Elementary mathematical methods are employed; but no student is

prepared to undertake the course who has not a sound working knowledge of
Algebra, Geometry, and Plane Trigonometry, with the elements of Analytical
Geometry.

Text-Books.—Loney's Elements of Statics and Dynamics; Merriman's Mechanics of
Materials; Merriman and Jacoby's Graphic Statics; Lectures.

Analytical Mechanics.—This course comprises the work in Mechanics
for the M. A. degree. Free use is made of the methods of the Infinitesimal
Calculus, and only suitably prepared students will be admitted to it. The subjects
studied are the Dynamics of a Particle, Analytical Statics, and the Dynamics
of a Rigid Body.

Text-Books.—Williamson's Treatise on Dynamics; Routh's Analytical Statics. For
reference and parallel reading, Minchin's Statics; Routh's Rigid Dynamics.

Post-Graduate work is offered also to candidates for the Ph. D. degree
and other students of advanced mathematics. The subjects pursued will be
the theory of Elasticity, Hydrodynamics, and Thermodynamics. Extended
courses of reading are prescribed, lectures will be delivered on special topics,
and investigations will be planned and carried out in the Mechanical Laboratory.