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The classes in Practical Geometry are designed to enable students to become acquainted with the use of drawing instruments and the principles of projection as applied to mechanical drawing. The course is preparatory to the course in Machine Drawing intended for
third and fourth year students.
The course in Applied Mechanics, and Heat and Steam, are designed to give students a knowledge of the main principles applied in
Engineering.
The classes in Practical Mathematics will enable students to ac- -quire a good working knowledge of Mathematics, essential to follow the work of the allied courses in Engineering subjects. The third and fourth years' courses in the Engineering Section are included here for the purpose of indicating the course of study which a student may pursue after completing the course for the first two years, but these further courses which will necessarily involve considerable expense to the Government, will not be given unless the number of students who have completed the first two years'
is considered sufficient to justify this expenditure.
course,
1.
Arithmetic.
FIRST YEAR'S COURSE.
Class 1.
PRACTICAL MATHEMATICS.
The use of decimals; the fallacy of retaining
more figures than are necessary, especially in calculations involv- -ing numbers which represent observed or measured quantities; con- -tracted and approximate methods of multiplying and dividing numbers; using rough checks in arithmetical work. Simplification of fractions; calculation of percentages expressing shillings and pence as decimals of a pound, quarters and pounds
as decimals of a hundredweight, etc.
2.
Algebra. The use of formulae when numeral values are given for the various quantities; Rules of Indices; problems leading to
easy
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