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SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
PROFESSOR THORNTON.
The work of this School is divided between the Academic
and the Engineering Departments. In the former
the following courses are offered, each of three lectures a
week:
B. A. COURSE.
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.—Wright's Theoretical Mechanics; Jacoby's Graphical
Statics; Merriman's Mechanics of Materials; Lectures.
GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
Analytical Mechanics.—This course comprises the work
in Mechanics for the M. A. degree. Free use is made of the
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; Todhunter's Analytical Statics; Pirie's Rigid
Dynamics. For reference and parallel reading, Minchin's Statics; Routh's
Rigid Dynamics, and Routh's Analytical Statics.
PH. D.
Graduate work is offered also to candidates for the Ph. D.
degree and other students of Advanced Mathematics. The
subjects offered for 1897-98 will be the Theory of Elasticity,
and the Theory of Attractions. 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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