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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.—Arthur Thornton's Theoretical Mechanics; Bovey's Theory of Structures;
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; Tait and Steele's Dynamics of a
Particle; Routh's Analytical Statics; Pirie's Rigid Dynamics. 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.
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