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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, 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.—Jessop's Applied Mathematics; Jacoby's Graphical Statics;
Greene's Structural Mechanics; Lectures.
GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
Advanced 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, and of a Rigid
Body, Dynamics of Machines, Hydraulics, and Thermodynamics.
Text-Books.—Lectures on Dynamics by the Professor; Bovey's Hydraulics;
Peabody's Thermodynamics.
PH. D.
For candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, two courses
are offered.
1. Analytical Mechanics.—Minchin's Statics, Williamson's Dynamics,
Routh's Rigid Dynamics.
2. Theory of Elasticity.—Love's Treatise on the Mathematical
Theory of Elasticity. Clebsch's Theory of the Elasticity of Solid
Bodies (Saint Venant's edition).
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