Calendar: 1871-1872 Page 135

134 APPLIED SCIENCES Heat Light Electricity and Magnetism and to construct the more simple apparatus required for those experiments Other Students of this Department may be admitted to this Class on payment of the usual extra fee Students who have attended Courses of Lectures on Physics in the College or elsewhere and who are desirous of acquiring further knowledge of any special branches have an oppor- tunity of doing so under the superintendence of the Professor and Demonstrator The subjects will be arranged as follows The'Use of the Barometer The Thermometer The Hygrometer Determination of Specific Gravities Measurement of volumes of Gases under varying pressures Measurement of Expansion of Solids Liquids and Gases Measurement of Specific and Latent Heats Measurement of conducting power of bodies for Heat Photometry Measurement of the Angles of Crystals and of Indices of Refraction Measurement of the Focal Lengths of Mirrors and Lenses Spectrum Analysis Interference and Polarization of Light Magnetism and the making of Magnets Diamagnetism Frictional Electricity Manipulation of Electrical Machines and Apparatus con- nected with them Electrometers and Electroscopes Different methods of developing currents of Electricity Voltaic Electricity The use of Galvanometers Measurement of the Strength of Currents Measurement of the Electro-motive Force and Resistance of Batteries Measuring the Resistance of Wires and Cables