Calendar: 1879-1880 Page 427
Please note: The digitised calendars in this site have had their contents extracted using OCR (optical character recognition) and as a result, there may be occasional errors in the text. We are working on correcting these errors, but this may take some time.
Page content
THE SCHOOL Subjects Dictation Translations into English from books not specially prepared Prose Composition Grammar Goethe Egmont Schiller Egmont's Leben und Tod and Die Belagerung von Antwerpen Clarendon Press VIII SCIENCE Natural Philosophy- One to both Divisions Given by the Council Subjects The Elementary parts of the Mechanics of solid and fluid bodies viz the physical properties of matter in its solid liquid and gaseous forms the com- position of two forces the centre of gravity the mechanical powers and their properties the laws of friction the laws of motion with simple appli- cations inertia weight and mass uniform and uniformly accelerated motion in straight line the laws of falling bodies and Atwood's Machine projectiles impact and collision the principle of work with simple applications the pressure of liquids and gases density and specific gravity floating bodies the construction and use of tbe more simple hydrostatic and hydraulic instru- ments Elementary Optics viz the laws of reflection and refraction the formation of images the con- struction of telescopes and microscopes
Further information
For further information about this page, please click here to contact us ›
