isua-isnscatalog-1890-1891-061

Description:	60 ANNUAL CATALOGUE.laws of fusion and boiling, heat convertible into potential en¬ ergy, potential energy convertible into heat, specific heat, thermo-dynamics, and the steam engine.All points in class work are fully illustrated by experiment, so that the student may see verified every principle and law presented.As in the first term, the work of the second is discussed under three general heads:1. Electricity and magnetism, in which are discussed current electricity, batteries, effects produced by electricity, electrical measurements, magnets and magnetism, laws of currents, mag¬ neto-electricity and current induction, theimo-electricity, fric- tional electricity, electrical machines, applications of electricity.2. Sound.—Sound waves, velocity of sounds, reflection and refraction of sound, loudness, interference, forced and sympa¬ thetic vibrations, pitch, vibration of strings, overtones and harmonics, quality, composition of sonorous vibrations, sound- receiving instruments, and musical instruments.3. Light.—Introductory discussion, reflection, refraction, spectrum analysis, color, interference, refraction and polariza¬ tion, thermal effects of radiation, and optical instruments.As in the recitation work of the first term, every point is il¬ lustrated by experiment.The laboratory work in physics is, as far as possible, quanti¬ tative in its character, and each student is expected to devote at least five hours per week to this line of work in addition to his daily recitation. The laboratory is well supplied with all kinds of apparatus necessary for a course in general physics, and the student is given every opportunity to make use of this apparatus.Connected with the work in Physics is a work-shop supplied with a work-bench, a lathe and a full set of tools, where the students in Physics are taught to devise and make pieces of ap¬ paratus for the purpose of illustrating the elementary princi¬ ples of Physics without having to depend upon the use of ex¬ pensive apparatus made by the regular dealers in such supplies.In all of the laboratory experiments careful note of the results obtained are required.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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