Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1894-1895 [PAGE 55]

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PHYSICS.

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of precision. An effort is made to have each student determine for himself the relations existing between the facts which he lias observed, in order to stimulate him to the formation of habits of sound thinking. Equipment.—The rooms devoted to physics are in Engineering Hall. They include a large lecture room and cabinet, a large general laboratory and cabinet, several small laboratories, a constant temperature room, a battery room, a workshop, and several private studies, laboratories, and offices. The lecture room is in the form of an amphitheater, and is furnished with opera chairs provided with tablet arms. Piers at the lecture desk and in center of room make demonstrations with the most delicate apparatus possible. A permanent screen and rolling blinds operated by a motor facilitate illustration by lantern. The cabinet rooms adjoining the lecture room are stocked with apparatus suitable for illustration and demonstration, and are provided with conveniences for preparing apparatus for lectures. The general laboratory is a large, well lighted, well ventilated room. It is supplied with tables, shelves, and sinks, arranged for general experimental work. The cabinet room adjoining the general laboratory contains a full line of apparatus suitable for elementary experimental work, and also a line of high grade apparatus intended for advanced experimental work and research. The small laboratories, six in number, are on the first floor. They are abundantly provided with masonry piers, wall shelves, sinks, dark curtains, etc. These rooms are now being equipped with apparatus for electrical measurements. The constant temperature room is on the first floor. It is isolated from the surrounding space by double masonry walls and double doors. It is arranged for such experiments as require a low uniform temperature. The workshop is also near the small laboratories. It is equipped with machines and tools for manufacture and repair of apparatus. The private studies and laboratories are intended for the use of advanced students and instructors. Electrical current is supplied to all the laboratories from the battery room and from the dynamo laboratory in University Hall.