Questions tagged [physical-sciences]
For questions about teaching and motivating students who are engaged in studying the physical sciences, namely biology, chemistry, and physics.
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Physical applications of higher terms of Taylor series
Depressingly many of the physical "applications" of Taylor series that I can find in textbooks and online are actually just applications of linear approximation, since they only take the constant and ...
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What are some activities/projects I can assign to calculus students from bio/chem/physics majors to specifically motivate their interest?
(This question was proposed during the area51 phase.)
It's common for chemistry/biology/physics majors to be required to take certain calculus courses. At my school, chem/bio students must take up ...
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Applications of Calculus 2 to Physics
I'm teaching a section of Calculus 2 (integration techniques, arc length, surface area, improper integrals, parametric & polar functions, sequences, and series ) next semester and would like to ...
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Elementary physics course for pure math student
Are there any mathematical departments which present the course "elementary physics" for pure math undergraduate students, separately?
Is there a way to present this course with the most pure ...
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Designing a Good Question on Kinematics: Test and Develop
So I was asked in an interview to design two questions for UK Physics A Level students studying the suvat equations, that is, equations of motion with a constant acceleration.
The first needs to '...
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