7. Determine the pitch of a tuning fork by the monochord. (Density of monochord wire = 8.7.), 8. Verify the inverse square law for magnetic poles. 9. Determine the magnetic dip. 10. Verify Joule's Law of the heating effect of a current. 11. Prove that the conductivity of sets of wires in parallel arc is the sum of their separate conductivities. 12. Find by the hydrogen voltameter the galvanometer constant of the given coil. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.-PART III. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe Carnot's cycle, and prove that any reversible cycle may be regarded as an assemblage of Carnot's cycles. 2. Show that the intrinsic energy of any ordinary gas is approximately proportional to its absolute temperature. 3. Describe and give the theory of some good method of determining specific thermal conductivity. 4. How has it been proved that the velocities of light in different media are inversely proportional to the refractive indices of these media? 5. Plane waves of light (λ = 5 × 10−5) pass through a large aperture and travel towards an observer at 1 metre distance. Find the areas in the aperture of the successive half period elements. 6. Obtain an expression connecting the grating space, order of spectrum, and direction of incident and diffracted rays for a grating set in the position of minimum deviation. 7. Describe the cylindrical condenser, and explain fully the precautions which must be taken in determining its dimensions. 8. Give a full account of the evidence on which the equation E=RC+ dN is based. 9. Give the theory of the Ballistic galvanometer (damping may be neglected). 10. Describe and explain some good method of producing a rotating magnetic field. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.-PART III. PRACTICAL EXAMINATION. The Board of Examiners. Only TWO questions to be attempted. 1. Determine the rigidity of the given metal. 2. Find the ratio between the viscosity of a saturated solution of common salt and that of distilled water. 3. Determine and plot the differences between the readings of a mercurial thermometer and those of an air thermometer between 20° and 100° C. 4. Find the latent heat of steam. 5. Determine the specific resistance of a sample of electric light carbon. 6. Determine the capacity of the given condenser. 7. Find the value of H. 8. Determine by Clark's method the e.m.f. of a Daniell's cell (Latimer Clark cell 1.434 volt). 9. Find by means of two monochord wires the relative wave lengths of the component tones of a perfect fifth. 10. Determine the wave length of sodium light. G ASTRONOMY. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give some account of how the dimensions and figure of the earth have been determined. 2. Describe some good method of determining solar parallax. 3. Describe how to determine the meridian from azimuth observations of the sun. 4. When the time is found by observing equal altitudes of the sun, find a correction to be applied to the mean of the observed times arising from the sun's change of declination in the interval. 6. Find the elongation of an inferior planet when stationary. 7. What is the special scientific interest in the coming solar eclipse? 8. What do you know about meteor swarms? ANCIENT HISTORY. FIRST PAPER. Professor Elkington. Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions. 1. "The Prince of Wales and the ex-Crown Prince of Hanover are Sapindas but their children fall into the wider circle of Samanodocas."-ARYAN HOUSEHOLD, p. 169. Explain this citation. 2. Describe (a) the functions and (b) the powers of the Censors. 3. "The result of the Licinian laws in reality, therefore, amounted nearly to what we would now call the creation of a batch of peers."MOMMSEN, ii., p. 318. Explain the analogy carefully. 4. Compare Carthage and Rome (a) as to their constitution, (b) as to their treatment of their subjects. 5. Explain the position of the Roman provincial governor, and shew how far it was compatible (a) with the welfare of the provinces, (b) with the Roman constitution. 6. Shew how Sulla reorganized the judicial system of Rome. |