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, Hydrostatics, the Elementary Dynamics of a Particle, and of 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.—Glazebrook's Mechanics; Jacoby's Graphical Statics; Greene's
Structural Mechanics; Lectures.
