Calendar: 1889-1890 Page 177

engineering 177 The Wheatstone Physical Laboratory Third Year -Tuesday 11 45-1 Friday 10 20-11 40 Students who have completed six Terms in this Department are admitted to Course in the Wheatstone Laboratory and are taught to make experiments for themselves in certain branches of the followiug subjects -Mechanics Pneumatics Heat Light Electricity and Magnetism and to construe- the more simple apparatus required for those experiments The Professor is at liberty to exclude from his Tuesday 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 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 The use of the Microscope and Spectroscope Spectrum Analysis Interference Diffraction and Polarization of Light The Saccharimeter Measurement of the Strength of Sugar Solutions The Measurement of Wave-lengths Radiation Absorption and Reflection of Radiant Heat