Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, Together with Appendices, Volume 38

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Eyre and Spottiswoode., 1894
 

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Page 26 - The resulting total will determine the place of the candidate in the competitive list ; the successful candidates being those who stand at the head of the list up to the number of vacancies competed for.
Page 25 - The elementary parts of Statics; namely, the equilibrium of forces acting in one plane and of parallel forces, the centre of gravity, the mechanical powers, friction. The elementary parts of Dynamics ; namely, uniform, uniformly accelerated, and uniform circular motion, falling bodies and projectiles in vacuo, cycloidal oscillations, collisions, work.
Page 23 - Algebra, up to and including the binomial theorem ; the theory and use of logarithms (c) Euclid, Books I.
Page 13 - Service, may deduct from their actual age any time not exceeding five years which they may have spent in such service.
Page 24 - Problems on elementary statics : the graphical or geometrical method of treating such problems should be studied as well as the analytical. No applications of the differential calculus to statics will be required. Dynamics : elementary principles ; Projectiles ; Motion of a heavy particle on a smooth curve ; centrifugal force ; Simple pendulum.
Page 13 - ... inches in height (in bare feet), and his weight and circumference of chest must be in accordance with the following table ; provided, however, that applicants who have had previous experience in said department, and who were separated therefrom without fault or delinquency on their part, may deduct from their actual age any time not exceeding five years, during which they have continuously served in said department : • FIRE SCHEDULE.
Page 14 - I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to inform you that the First Lord...

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