APPENDIX. I. REVISED STATEMENT OF PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN THE QUESTIONISTS' EXAMINATION. (Published March 23, 1846). I. IN the Examination of Candidates for Honours: In order more completely to secure in all Candidates for Mathematical Honours a knowledge of the more elementary parts of Mathematics; and to determine with a greater degree of certainty the amount of Mathematical knowledge required of such Candidates; it is proposed 1 THAT Questions and Problems being proposed to the Questionists on eight days, instead of six days as at present, the first three days be assigned to the more elementary, and the last five to the higher parts of Mathematics: that after the first three days, there shall be an interval of eight days; and that on the seventh of these days the Moderators and Examiners shall declare, what persons have so acquitted themselves as to deserve Mathematical Honours. 2 That those who are declared to have so acquitted themselves, and no others, be admitted to the Examination in the higher parts of Mathematics; and that after that Examination, the Moderators and Examiners, taking into account the Examination of all the eight days, shall arrange all the Candidates who have been declared to deserve Mathematical Honours into the three classes of Wranglers, Senior Optimes, and Junior Optimes, as has been hitherto usual; and that these classes be published in the Senate-House at nine o'clock on the Friday morning preceding the general B.A. Admission. 3 That the subjects of the Examination on the first three days shall be those contained in the following Schedule :—* EUCLID. Book I to VI. Book XI, Props. 1 to xxi. XII, Props. I, II. Book ARITHMETIC and the elementary parts of ALGEBRA ; namely, the Rules for the fundamental Operations upon Algebraical Symbols, with their proofs; the solution of simple and quadratic Equations; Arithmetical and Geometrical Progression, Permutations and Combinations, the Binomial Theorem, and the principles of Logarithms. The elementary parts of PLANE TRIGONOMETRY, So far as to include the solution of triangles. The elementary parts of CONIC SECTIONS, treated geometrically, together with the values of the Radius of Curvature, and of the Chords of Curvature passing through the Focus and Center. The elementary parts of STATICs, treated without the Differential Calculus; namely, the Composition and Resolution of Forces acting in one plane on a point, the Mechanical Powers, and the properties of the Center of Gravity. The elementary parts of DYNAMICS, treated without the Differential Calculus; namely, the Doctrine of Uniform and Uniformly Accelerated Motion, of Falling Bodies, Projectiles, Collision, and Cycloidal Oscillations. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sections of NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA ; the Propositions to be proved in Newton's manner. The elementary parts of HYDROSTATICS, treated without the Differential Calculus; namely, the pressure of non-elastic Fluids, specific Gravities, floating Bodies, the pressure of the Air, and the construction and use of the more simple Instruments and Machines. The elementary parts of OPTICS, treated geometrically: namely, the laws of Reflection and Refraction of Rays at plane and spherical surfaces, not including Aberrations; the Eye; Telescopes. The elementary parts of ASTRONOMY; so far as they are necessary for the explanation of the more simple phenomena, without calculation. 4 In all these subjects, Examples, and Questions arising directly out of the Propositions, shall be introduced into the Examination, in addition to the Propositions themselves. 5 The Examination both for Mathematical Honours and for the Ordinary Degree shall be conducted according to the following Schedule. 6 The Moderators and Examiners shall be authorized to declare Candidates, though they have not deserved Mathematical Honours, to have deserved to pass for an Ordinary Degree, so far as the Mathematical part of the Examination for such degree is concerned; and such persons shall accordingly be excused the Mathematical part of the Examination for an Ordinary Degree, and shall only be required to pass in the other subjects, namely, in the parts of the Examination assigned in the Schedule to the last two days: but such excuse shall be available to such persons only for the Examination then in progress. The proposed Alterations shall not take effect until January 1848. |