Northern Oklahoma College - Roundup Yearbook (Tonkawa, OK)

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'11 ief 'f V W gfm if at A ei 3 H Physics Laborator The instruction received in the Physical 'I'-laboratory in the State .-,School is prob- ably as' practical and thorough as any of its rank in the State of Olclahoma. ,The ,in- struetor, Mr. Walter G. Hopkins, is held in high esteem by the srmieiits, a teacher. The common expression heard in remarking upon some problem is, Well, 'if I ean't understand this when he ex-plains it, nobody else can make nie see Qt. , A . The Laboratory, a corner of which is shown hon 'another page, is very efficiently equipped. It contains practically all thc necessary apparatus for good laboratory work. Although several shipments of delicate instruments were delayed on account-of the difhctilty of obtaining anything from foreign countries in the pwayfof scientific ap- paratusg nevertheless the experimental work was .carried on according 'to the plan laid out at firstly The Laboratory equipment is gradually increasing and it his .the earnest hope ,of every student that it will soon equal equipment which the sfchool liadj, before Wilkin Hall was burnel. -Q . f A The test used in the Laboratory is not one which involves minute physical prob- lems and impractical experiments, but deals with experiments which are of practical use to a citizen in his everyday life. The class perform-s such experiments1a.s deter- mining the efliciency of different machines -a water motor or inclined plane for ex- ample. Other experiments such as determining the amount of heat in a cubic foot of gas: used in town, or an investigationfof the action of eleetromotive-'forces, Ori' of the variQus phenomena which occur in the study of light, are equallyf 'lJ1'HCti0al and have been performed in the Laboratory of this School. K Q ' V Q A 99

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