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6. D, E, and F are three points in a straight line. With D and F in turn as centre, describe circles to pass through E, and draw EC perpendicular to line DEF. Draw the direct

common tangent to the two circles, touching them at A and B respectively, and cutting EC at C. Join AE and EB. Measure the angle AEB. Show theoretically that it should be a right angle.

Show details of construction for the common tangents above.

7. ABCD is a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle. The sides AD and BC produced meet at G, and A, B, C, and D are joined to the centre O of the circle. Show that the angle at G is half the difference of the angles AOB and DOC.

PHYSICS.

Time: two hours.

1. How would you proceed to measure the pressure of gas supplied by the mains to the laboratory?

The barometer stands at 30 inches balancing 14.75 lbs. per square inch; the specific gravity of mercury is 136; and the difference between the two water columns is 1.25 inches. By how many ounces per square inch does the gas pressure exceed atmospheric ?

2. Explain the terms: temperature, quantity of heat, calorie, specific heat.

A piece of hot iron is placed in a vessel containing 250 grammes of water at 16°C., and raises the temperature of the water to 25°C. How much heat has been given out by the iron?

If 50 grammes of water had been added instead of the iron, with the same result, what would have been the initial temperature of the added water?

3. What liquids are used in thermometers? Mention any special advantages for this purpose possessed by mercury. Draw and describe the maximum, minimum, and differential thermo

meters.

4. State and explain Newton's First Law of Motion. Why is it called the Principle of Inertia ? Give some familiar examples of this principle.

A body starts with a speed of 4 feet per second, and its acceleration is 2 feet per second per Find the space second. covered in the fifth second.

5. Find the weight which is supported by a power of 8 lbs. acting along an inclined plane (a) when the inclination of the plane is 45°, (b) when the height is to the longest side as 2 to 25, and (c) when the height is to the base as 3 to 20.

6. The volume of an irregular solid heavier than water is required. State clearly the way in which this may be determined experimentally.

7. What is an aneroid barometer ?

State and explain Boyle's Law. Why is it so called?

A certain quantity of gas occupies a volume of 300 c.c. at 0°C. Find its volume at 91°C.

8. Draw and describe the forcing pump. Are there any limits to the height to which the water can be raised?

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY.

Time: two hours.

[Candidates are expected to write formulae and equations wherever possible.]

1. Describe how you would prepare and collect some hydrogen gas. Describe also some experiments to illustrate the fact that water is formed when it burns, and that it is lighter than air. Give a sketch of the apparatus you would use.

2. Carbon is a reducing agent. What do you understand by this statement? Describe briefly some experiments to illustrate the fact. What important uses are made of the reducing power of carbon? Name some other reducing agents.

3. What do you understand by the terms "acid”, “base”, and "salt"? Give examples of each.

4. Write a short account of the laws of chemical combination.

5. Given ammonium sulphate, calcium carbonate, and suitable apparatus, how would you prepare gaseous ammonia ?

6. How is nitrogen peroxide prepared? What action takes place when it is mixed with sulphur dioxide and steam? How is the substance thus formed obtained in a concentrated form?

7. Describe the preparation of phosphorus from bone ash. Write a brief account of its chemical properties. How is it affected by heating out of contact with air?

PHYSIOLOGY.

Time: two hours.

[Candidates are expected to give diagrams wherever possible.]

1. (a) What is the course of the blood in its flow through the heart? (b) Explain the mechanisms whereby the blood is made to take this course. (c) How is the substance of the heart itself supplied with blood?

2. (a) What are the functions of the mucous membrane of the small intestine? (b) Where and what are the valvulae conniventes, villi, and crypts of Lieberkühn?

3. What is the naked eye appearance of (a) an artery, (b) a vein, (c) a nerve? Describe also the minute structure of each.

4. Explain the means whereby air is drawn into the lungs. during inspiration and is expelled during expiration.

5. What change in the eye takes place when, after looking at a distant object, you look at a near object? How is this change effected?

BOTANY.

Time: two hours.

1. What are the chief differences between a root and a stem in (a) structure, (b) function?

2. Describe the following organs, state their use, and give examples from among common garden flowers: tendril, cotyledon, stipule, bulb.

3. How are seeds dispersed ? Illustrate your answer by examples you have noted.

4. Describe with the help of diagrams the germination of a pea and a grain of wheat. How would you arrange an experiment to show the germination ?

5. Describe fully the flower of the wallflower, and name some other plants having flowers of similar construction.

6. Name, describe, and draw four kinds of fruit, and give examples of each.

SENIOR EXAMINATION PAPERS,

NOVEMBER,

ENGLISH.

1906.

Time: two hours.

1. Write out (a) eight lines beginning "Is this the region", (b) eight lines beginning "If thou beest he".

2. Write brief explanatory notes on the following, and refer them to their context:

a.

I answer you right painted cloth, from whence you have studied your questions.

b. Why would you be so fond to overcome

The bonny (? bony) priser of the humorous Duke ? c. There is none of my uncle's marks upon you.

d. Caesar's thrasonical brag.

e. The wise man's folly is anatomised

Even by the squandering glances of the fool.

f. His was no bankruptcy of the purse, but of the soul. g. Let us pity and forgive them.

h. Volcanic heroism; attenuated cosmopolitanism.

i. When with fierce winds Orion armed

Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew
Busiris and his Memphian chivalry.

k. A leper once he lost and gained a king.

1.

Anon they move

In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood
Of flutes and soft recorders.

3. Explain: sublimed with mineral fury; the oblivious pool; the opprobious hill; the precious bane; flown with insolence and wine; amerced; architrave; grunsel.

4. Consider the charm and defects of Carlyle as a stylist, and criticize his appreciation of the genius of Burns.

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