Problem Solving and the Use of Math in Physics Courses.
By Edward F. Redish. 2006
146 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Mathematics is an essential element of physics problem solving, but experts often fail to appreciate exactly how they use it. Math may be the language of science, but math-in-physics is a distinct dialect of that language. Physicists tend to blend conceptual physics with mathematical symbolism in a way that profoundly affects the way equations are used and interpreted. Research with university physics students in classes from algebra-based introductory physics indicates that the gap between what students think they are supposed to be doing and what their instructors expect them to do can cause severe problems.
Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Education
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- Edward F. Redish
- David M. Hammer
- Andrew Elby
- Jennifer Docktor
- Jose P. Mestre
- Eric Weilin Kuo
- Ayush Gupta
- Karl A. Smith
Citations in the corpus
- Making sense of the Legendre transform (2008, background): “Thus, when we are thinking about physical functions we tend not to pay attention to the particular functional form the mathematical function uses to encode physical information.[4] For example, if we are describing a position as a function of time, we might write it as x(t).”