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SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Smith.
Dr. Humphreys.
This School offers the following courses:
1. Experimental Physics.—This course is intended to include Elementary Mechanics,
Heat, Electricity, Sound, and Light. Instruction is given by lectures
and text-books, with illustrative experiments. The losses of apparatus by the
recent fire have been more than repaired, and ample provision is made for experimentation
both in the lecture-room and the laboratory. The members of this
class are expected to perform a graded set of simple exercises in the Physical
Laboratory, the hours for which are accommodated, as far as possible, to the convenience
of each student.
2. Mathematical Physics.—In this course selected portions of the preceding
one are more fully developed by the aid of mathematics. The subjects studied
may be changed from session to session, according to the preparation or the needs
of the student. The utmost possible freedom, consistent with a proper standard
as to amount and quality, is afforded to him. The Laboratory work in this class
is more advanced and extensive than in the preceding class, and aims at the more
exact measurement of physical quantities.
3. Electricity.—This course is distinguished from the preceding, in being adapted
of design to the needs of such as intend to pursue Electrical Engineering. The
book work and the Laboratory exercises have therefore a practical character.
They are intended to cover the first half of a four years course of Electrical
Engineering.
4. Graduate Work is offered to candidates for the Doctorate of Philosophy and
to others who, for special reasons, may wish to do advanced work in Physics along
special lines. This work will be mainly experimental and, as far as our resources
allow, will be accommodated to the preferences of the student himself. More
detailed information respecting the advanced work will be issued in a special circular,
and may meanwhile be obtained by correspondence or personal interview.
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, electing this School, are only required
to pass in the class of Experimental Physics.
The course for Master of Arts in this School is that given in the class of Mathematical
Physics.
THE ROUSS PHYSICAL LABORATORY.
This building is now completed, and occupied. Its equipment is such as to offer
unusual facilities for both elementary and advanced practical work. The working
gas and water, as well as steam-heat, are supplied to each of them. The
structure was specially designed to meet the requirements of Practical Physics,
and is convenient within, while it is sightly without.
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