Composition and resolution of velocities.

Definition and measurement of acceleration.

Rectilinear motion with uniform acceleration, with or without initial velocity.

Uniform circular motion; centripetal acceleration.

Laws of motion, with illustrations.

Definition and measurement of mass and force, of momentum and impulse, of work and energy.

Conservation and transmutation of energy.

Gravitation; weight.

Weight approximately an uniformly accelerating force.

Motion of falling bodies, illustrated by Atwood's machine.
Motion of a simple pendulum; isochronous vibrations.
Determination of the acceleration of gravity.

Variation of g with place.

Composition, resolution, and equilibrium of forces acting at a point. Composition, resolution, and equilibrium of forces acting in parallel

lines.

Couples and their moments.

Centre of parallel forces; centre of gravity.

States of equilibrium, with illustrations.

Simple machines and their mechanical advantage.

Laws of friction, with illustrations.

Laws of elasticity of traction and torsion, with illustrations.

Definition of pressure.

Pressure in fluids; its nature and transmission.

Variation of pressure in a heavy fluid at rest.

Archimedes' principle, and its experimental proof.

Definition and measurement of density and specific gravity, and methods of determining them for solids and liquids by the balance and by hydrometers.

Equilibrium of bodies floating in a liquid.

Equilibrium of non-miscible liquids in communicating vessels.
General phenomena of capillarity.

Boyle's law, and its experimental verification.

Barometer and manometer; their construction, and method of use. The construction and principles of action of the simpler forms of the following, viz. the air-pump, suction-pump, force-pump, siphon, Mariotte's bottle.

SOUND.

Nature, production, and mode of propagation of sound.
Determination of the velocity of sound in different media.

Reflexion and refraction of sound,

Nature and characteristics of musical tones.

Measurement of vibration-frequency, and estimation of wave-length. Resonance and resonators.

Interference; beats and combinational tones.

Reflexion by plane and spherical surfaces; formation of images, their position and size.

Laws of refraction.

Refraction by plane surfaces and plates.

Total reflexion; mirage.

Refraction by prisms; minimum deviation.

Refraction by lenses; formation of images, their position and size. Chromatic dispersion; chromatic aberration of lenses; achromatism. Simple and compound microscopes; astronomical, Galilean and Newtonian telescopes.

The eye, its structure and action as an optical instrument; longsight and short-sight.

Spectroscope; the solar spectrum; spectra of different species; spectrum-analysis.

General phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence.

General principles of the wave-theory of light; explanation of reflexion and refraction.

Interference; Newton's rings.

General phenomena of diffraction.

General phenomena of double refraction.

Polarization by reflexion and double refraction.

Explanation of the polarizing action of tourmaline and of a Nicol's prism, with description of the latter.

General phenomena of rotatory polarization.

HEAT.

Nature and sources of heat.

Definition of temperature.

Construction and graduation of thermometers; relations between different scales of temperature.

Determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat.

Measurement of the expansibility of solids, liquids, and gases.

Air-thermometer; absolute temperature.

Change of state; influence of pressure; with illustrations.

Measurement of maximum vapour-pressure.

Definition and measurement of specific heat and of latent heat.

Definition and determination of dew-point and of hygrometric state. Definition of thermal conductivity, with illustrations.

Definition and illustration of convection.

Radiation; its character, and the laws of its reflexion, refraction, emission and absorption.

Theory of exchanges.

M

MAGNETISM.

Properties of magnets.
Magnetic induction.

General phenomena of diamagnetism.

Processes of magnetization.

Distribution of magnetism in magnets.

Definition of the declination, dip, and intensity at a place, and general method of determining them.

ELECTRICITY.

Properties and laws of action of electrified bodies.

Electric induction; definition and illustration of specific inductive capacity.

Processes of producing electrification.

Electroscopes and electrometers.

Distribution of electrification on conductors.

Accumulation of electrification.

Phenomena of discharge.

Definition and illustration of electric quantity, density, potential, capacity.

Production of an electric current.

The cells of Volta, Smee, Poggendorff (bichromate), Daniell, Grove, Leclanché, and their theory.

Production of electric currents by heat.

Physical and chemical effects of currents.

General account of action between currents and currents and between currents and magnets.

Simple galvanometers.

Measurement of current-strength, electromotive-force, and resistance. Induction-currents.

Description and general explanation of the Ruhmkorff-coil and the Gramme-machine.

2. CHEMISTRY.

Elementary questions will be set on the following subjects:

Differences between Mechanical Mixture, Solution, and Chemical combination. Differences between Elementary and Compound substances. Laws of Chemical combination. Equivalent weights' or ⚫ relative combining proportions' of the elements. Combination in definite, multiple, and reciprocal proportions. The Atomic Theory. 'Atomic weights' of the elements. Molecules. Molecular weights. Relation between the density of a gas and its molecular weight. Avogadro's hypothesis. Combination of gases by volume. Quantivalence.

Meaning of Chemical symbols, formulæ, and equations. Calculation of quantities by weight and by volume. Calculation of the percentage composition of a substance from the results of analysis. Calculation of percentage composition from the formula of a substance. Calculation of the formula of a substance from the percentage composition. Combina

tion. Decomposition. Double decomposition. Nature of Acids, Bases and Salts. Capacity of saturation of Acids and Bases. Nomenclature. Relation between Atomic weight and Specific heat. Atomic heat. Principles of Spectrum Analysis. Diffusion of Gases. Allotropy.

Hydrogen. Chlorine. Bromine. Iodine. Fluorine. The combinations of the four last-mentioned elements with Hydrogen.

Oxygen. Ozone. Water, and peroxide of hydrogen. Analysis and synthesis of water. Standard experiment for determining the composition of water by weight. Spring-water. Action of water on lead. Temporary and permanent hardness. The oxides and oxyacids of chlorine. Chlorates and Hypochlorites. Bleaching powder.

Sulphur. Allotropic forms. Hydrogen sulphide. The oxides of sulphur. Sulphuric acid and the sulphates. Sulphurous acid and the sulphites. Sodium Thiosulphate; its preparation, composition, and uses. Nitrogen. The atmosphere, and its relations to animal and vegetable life. Analysis of air by volume. Standard experiment for determining the composition of air by weight. Ammonia; determination of its composition; Ammonium, and its salts. The oxides of nitrogen; nitric acid and nitrates. Artificial formation of nitrates. Nitrous acid and nitrites.

Phosphorus. Allotropic forms. Red or amorphous phosphorus. Sources of phosphorus. Phosphoric acid and the phosphates. Phosphorous and Hypophosphorous acids. Chlorides and oxychloride of phosphorus. Hydrogen phosphide.

Arsenic. Its oxides. Hydrogen arsenide. Marsh's test. Reinsch's Arsenious acid and its salts. Arsenic acid and its salts. Sulphides of arsenic.

test.

Antimony. Its oxides and sulphides. Hydrogen antimonide. Chlorides of antimony. Detection of antimony and distinction from arsenic.

Boron. Allotropic forms. Sources of boric acid. Boric acid and borates. Boron chloride, and nitride.

Carbon. Allotropic forms. Carbon monoxide and dioxide. Liquid and solid carbon dioxide. The carbonates. Carbon disulphide. Combustion. Structure of flame. Coal-gas. Davy lamp. Principles of illumination.

Silicon. Silicon chloride and hydride. Silica; its naturally occurring varieties. Artificial formation or purification of silica. Silicon fluoride. Hydrofluosilicic acid. Glass; and the more important artificial sili

cates.

Potassium. Sources of potassium salts. Carbonate. Hydrate. Nitrate. Iodide.

Sodium. Chloride. Alkali manufacture by Leblanc's process. Sodium acid-carbonate (bicarbonate). Caustic soda. Chili nitre. Sulphate.

Silver. Nitrate. Chloride.

Barium. Strontium. Calcium. Barium nitrate, oxide and hydrate. Preparation of barium salts from heavy-spar. Varieties of Calcium carbonate. Lime. Calcium hydrate. Mortar. Calcium chloride. Sulphate.

Aluminium. Chloride. The Alums.' Alumina. Clay.

Magnesium. Magnesia. Preparation of carbonate from dolomite, and sulphate from kieserite.

Zinc. Oxide, sulphate, and chloride.

Cadmium. Oxide, sulphate, and chloride. Sulphide.

Lead. Oxides-Litharge. Red-lead. Dioxide. White lead by the Dutch process. Pattinson's process for desilverising lead. Cupellation. Lead nitrate,

Manganese. Potassium manganate and permanganate.

Iron. The Blast furnace. Cast-iron. Wrought-iron. Steel. Bessemer process for making steel. Oxides of Iron. Sulphates and Chlorides. Conversion of ferrous salts into ferric salts and vice versa. Prussian blue. Iron pyrites.

Cobalt and Nickel, German-silver.

Chromium. Potassium Chromate and Dichromate. Trioxide and Sesquioxide. Chrome-alum.

Bismuth. Chloride and Oxychloride. Copper. Alloys-Brass and Bronze. Sulphate and Chloride.

Nitrate and Oxynitrate.

Red oxide and Black oxide.

Mercury. Oxides. Calomel and Corrosive Sublimate. chloride, Vermilion. Mercurous and Mercuric nitrates. Tin. Oxide. Chlorides.

Gold and Platinum. Chlorides.

Amido

In addition to the foregoing, it is expected that every student will be acquainted with the names and composition of the more commonly occurring metallic ores, and the methods of obtaining the metals from such ores.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION.

The practical examination shall include the preparation of certain simple gases or other practical chemical operations (enumerated below), and the qualitative analysis of single salts.

The following is the enumeration referred to:

The preparation and demonstration of the characteristic properties of the following gases :-Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Chlorine, Hydrochloric acid, Nitrous oxide, Nitric oxide, Carbon monoxide, Carbon dioxide, Sulphur dioxide, Ammonia, Hydrogen sulphide.

The preparation of salts, in a crystallised form when practicable, of the metals Mercury, Lead, Copper, Zinc, or Iron, with Nitric, Sulphuric, or Hydrochloric acids.

The preparation of salts, in a crystallised form when practicable, of Potassium, Sodium, Ammonium, Calcium or Magnesium, by reaction of their hydrates or carbonates, with Nitric, Sulphuric, Hydrochloric, Oxalic, or Tartaric acids.

The preparation of the following substances:-Potassium iodide; Potassium perchlorate; Lead dioxide; Chromium trioxide; Mercuric iodide; Hydriodic acid in solution; Calcium carbonate; Potassium permanganate in solution; Nitric acid; Oxalic acid; Silica; Prussian blue.

The materials to be given for Qualitative Analysis shall consist of Single Salts; each containing one of the more commonly occurring