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Caption: Course Catalog - 1889-1890
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APPLIED MATHEMATICS. 47 Lettering.—Plain and ornamental alphabets; titles and title pages; round and stump writing. Descriptive Geometry.—Problems on the point, right line, and plane; single-curved surfaces; double-curved surfaces; development and intersections; shades and shadows; perspective; numerous and varied practical problems requiring the application of these principles and methods. PHYSICS. The course of physics embraces the kinds of work following: 1. Recitations, in which a text book is used as a guide. 2. Experiments in the physical laboratory, in which the student uses the instruments in testing the principles taught-, 3. Illustrated experiments once each week, in which the more costly apparatus is used before the whole class in such experiments as are difficult to perform, and which are more effective when prepared for an audience. 4. Higher physical experiments by advanced classes, consisting either of researches, or of reviews of careful and elaborate experiments previously worked up by others. The department of physics is provided with illustrative apparatus for use in the lecture-room, and with an extensive physical laboratory. The collection of instruments embraces acoustic apparatus from R. Koenig, of Paris ; apparatus for heat and molecular physics from J. Salleron, of Paris ; for light, optics, and electricity from Stoehrer, of Leipsic, and Browning and Newton, of London ; pneumatic and electrical apparatus from E. S. Ritchie, of Boston ; and a large number of pieces prepared at the mechanical shops of the University. It includes, also, Browning's electric lamp ; and from Eliot Brothers, and other makers, London, resistance coils, galvanometers, ammeters, and voltmeters for higher researches in electricity. A large dynamo in the machine shops is connected with the laboratory. A room on the ground floor is especially devoted to instruction in electrical measurements. FRENCH AND GERMAN. See College of Literature and Science.
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