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Two insulated spherical conductors (charged with the same electricity) are suspended near one another. What influence will they exercise upon one another ?

Describe some form of Polariscope.

How do you account for the colours of a rainbow, of a soap-bubble, of mother-of-pearl ?

Explain the formation of images by a plane mirror, and by a convex lens.

What reasons are there for supposing heat to be a form of motion ?

What is the boiling point of a fluid ? What causes will raise or lower the boiling point ?

By what means are the highest and the lowest known temperatures obtained, and how are such temperatures measured thermometrically ?

What is the principle of a barometer ? What corrections have to be applied to the reading of a cistern barometer ?

Shew that the weight of a body floating in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces, and that the centres of gravity of the body and of the displaced fluid are in the same vertical line.

What is the law of universal gravitation ? How is it proved to be true ?

What are the Volume, the Mass, and the Weight of a body ? Has the same body the same weight under all circumstances ?

What other substances besides those named in the preceding question may an organic substance contain, and how is their presence discovered ?

Describe the process by which the percentage composition of a substance consisting of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen is determined.

How are Ether, Bisulphide of Carbon, and Chloroform prepared ?

Describe the modes of preparation and the properties of Carbonic Oxide.

Give some account of the metal Antimony and its combinations.

What reactions do the solutions exhibit which are obtained by dissolving (1) Iron and (2) Tin in Hydrochloric and Nitrohydrochloric acids respectively ?

Give an account of some method by which Arsenic may be detected in the presence of organic substances.

How would you examine a sample of water for (1) Lead, (2) Nitrates, (3) Organic matter ? Under what circumstances is water liable to contain each of these ?

Why is rain water always ‘soft’ ? Describe and explain the method of estimating quantitatively the ‘hardness’ of water.