Calendar: 1879-1880 Page 149
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14S APPLIED SCIENCES Heat Light Electricity and Magnetism and to construct the more simple apparatus required for those experiments The Professor is at liberty to exclude from his Monday Class any Students whom he does not consider sufficiently advanced for it Other Students of this Department may be admitted to this Class on payment of the usual extra fee Students who are desirous of acquiring further knowledge of any special branches have an opportunity 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 λleasurement 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
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