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PHYSICS

EQUIPMENT

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The rooms devoted to physios are in Engineering Hall. They include a large lecture room and cabinet, a large general laboratory and cabinet, several small laboratories, a constanttemperature room, a battery room, a work shop, 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 the center of the 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 this laboratory contains a full line of apparatus suitable for elementary experimental work, and also a line of highgrade apparatus intended for advanced experimental work and research. The small laboratories, six in number, are on the first floor, and are abundantly provided' with masonry piers, wall shelves, sinks, dark curtains, etc. These rooms are now 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 near the small laboratories. It is equipped with machines and tools for the manufacture and repair of apparatus. In addition to the preceding, there are a number of private studies and laboratories for the use of advanced students and instructors. Electrical current is supplied to all the laboratories from the battery room, and also from the dynamo laboratory in University Hall. U.-6