Timeline for Is higher-math pedagogy responding properly to Wolfram Alpha's existence?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
9 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2018 at 3:04 | comment | added | Rob Perkins | I chose this as the favorite answer among two very good answers to my question, even though the difficulties of E&M problems stem from not understanding transcendental function calculus, rather than arclength, because nothing resonates with me more than this: "If you only have a black box knowledge (plug it into WA), you'll struggle in standard physics and engineering classes." Yup, I know that from personal experience. | |
| May 6, 2018 at 3:02 | vote | accept | Rob Perkins | ||
| May 4, 2018 at 19:10 | comment | added | guest | Yeah, I was wrong. Chris caught me. | |
| May 3, 2018 at 22:13 | comment | added | Rob Perkins | That makes the application of arc length reducible to a specific rule of thumb... if you're not engineering the bridge, that is... | |
| May 3, 2018 at 16:08 | comment | added | guest | Just looked and can't find much on physical applications of arc length other than suspension cables. | |
| May 3, 2018 at 15:55 | comment | added | guest | I think I was thinking of line integrals. | |
| May 3, 2018 at 15:26 | comment | added | Chris Cunningham | Do you have a good source of E&M problems that would need this kind of computation? I would love to have this as a resource. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 23:36 | comment | added | Rob Perkins | Yeah, it's an application of the Pythagorean theorem, and compared to the CFD and FDM stuff I do in industry, not at all that much symbol manipulation. There's irony: that same day he was bored with his beginning electronics course professor, one of the career exploration 101's, (Ohm's Law, etc) for not diving into the physics more. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 23:24 | history | answered | guest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |