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plete collection of pl,ysical apparatus suitable for lecture
illustl':ltion and research work.
B. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS.
Instruction in this subject is imparted by means of
lectures and by the use of text-books.
LECTURE COURSES.-Tl.ree courses of lectures are delivered
extending o,'er the whole Session-one to Pass
Students of the Second Year, one to Honour Students of
the Second Year, and one to Honour Students of the
Third Year. Pass Students of the Third Year attend
the Honour Course of the Second Year. A class for Students
reading the M.A. Honour Course of the Royal
1'niversity in Mathematical Physics may be arranged with
the Professor. An additional ccurtie of lectures is given
by the Senior Scholar to Pass Students of the Second
Year.
The subjects treated in the courses of the Second Year
are those branches of Mathematical Physics prescrih€d for
the Second University Examinations of the Royal University
ill Arts and Engineering. The Third Year Course
includes those branches of Mathematical Physics, prescribed
by the Royal Universityfor the Degrees ofB.A.
and B.E, with Honours.
TEXT-BoOKS :-The Text-books recommended for the Second Year
Courses are Loney's Mechanics and Hydrostatics for Beginners,
Loney's Treatise cn Elementary Dynamics, Greaves' Statics, Heath's
Elementary Optics, Besan!'s Elementary Hydrost .. tics, Mathematical
Astronomy, by Barlow and Bryan.
For the Third Year Course the following Text-books are recommended
:-Eouth's Statics, vols. I. and 11., Williamson and Tarletoll'.
Dynamics, Routh's Elementary Rigid Dynamics, Heath's Geometrical
Optics, Besan!'s Hydromechanics, Part I., Godfray's Astronomy,
Frost's Newton.
LIBRARy:-The College Library contains a large collection of
standard works on the ,'arious branches of Mathematical nnd
Experimental Physics, and their allied subjects, and receive,. many
British and foreign scientific periodicale and journals.
James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway