Related Research Articles
Physics is the natural science of matter,involving the study of matter,its fundamental constituents,its motion and behavior through space and time,and the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines,with its main goal being to understand how the universe behaves. A scientist who specializes in the field of physics is called a physicist.
George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath,theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling,invented the liquid drop model and the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus,worked on radioactive decay,star formation,stellar nucleosynthesis,Big Bang nucleosynthesis,and molecular genetics.
Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The Journal of Mathematical Physics defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the development of mathematical methods suitable for such applications and for the formulation of physical theories". An alternative definition would also include those mathematics that are inspired by physics,known as physical mathematics.
Michael David Spivak was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry,an expositor of mathematics,and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry.
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician,physicist,and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th-century who contributed widely to applied mathematics and was renowned for his research in mathematical physics and numerical analysis,including the theory of special functions,along with his contributions to astronomy,celestial mechanics,the history of physics,and digital signal processing.
William Gilbert Strang is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory,the calculus of variations,wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education,including publishing mathematics textbooks. Strang was the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught Linear Algebra,Computational Science,and Engineering,Learning from Data,and his lectures are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.
Daniel Kleppner,born 1932,is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-founder and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. His areas of science include atomic,molecular,and optical physics,and his research interests include experimental atomic physics,laser spectroscopy,and high precision measurements.
Jerrold Eldon Marsden was a Canadian mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control &Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
Edward Bruce Burger is an American mathematician and President Emeritus of Southwestern University in Georgetown,Texas. Previously,he was the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College,and the Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching at Baylor University. He also had been named to a single-year-appointment as vice provost of strategic educational initiatives at Baylor University in February 2011. He currently serves as the president and CEO of St. David's Foundation.
Classical Mechanics is a textbook about that subject written by Herbert Goldstein,a professor at Columbia University. Intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students,it has been one of the standard references in its subject around the world since its first publication in 1950.
Jerald LaVerne Ericksen was an American mathematician specializing in continuum mechanics.
Robert Davis Richtmyer was an American physicist,mathematician,educator,author,and musician.
Mathematics education in the United States varies considerably from one state to the next,and even within a single state. However,with the adoption of the Common Core Standards in most states and the District of Columbia beginning in 2010,mathematics content across the country has moved into closer agreement for each grade level. The SAT,a standardized university entrance exam,has been reformed to better reflect the contents of the Common Core. However,many students take alternatives to the traditional pathways,including accelerated tracks. As of 2023,twenty-seven states require students to pass three math courses before graduation from high school,and seventeen states and the District of Columbia require four.
John Vrooman Wehausen was an American applied mathematician considered to be one of the world's leading researchers and pioneers in the field of marine hydrodynamics.
Murray Ralph Spiegel (1923-1991) was an author of textbooks on mathematics,including titles in a collection of Schaum's Outlines.
A mathematical exercise is a routine application of algebra or other mathematics to a stated challenge. Mathematics teachers assign mathematical exercises to develop the skills of their students. Early exercises deal with addition,subtraction,multiplication,and division of integers. Extensive courses of exercises in school extend such arithmetic to rational numbers. Various approaches to geometry have based exercises on relations of angles,segments,and triangles. The topic of trigonometry gains many of its exercises from the trigonometric identities. In college mathematics exercises often depend on functions of a real variable or application of theorems. The standard exercises of calculus involve finding derivatives and integrals of specified functions.
Physics education research (PER) is a form of discipline-based education research specifically related to the study of the teaching and learning of physics,often with the aim of improving the effectiveness of student learning. PER draws from other disciplines,such as sociology,cognitive science,education and linguistics,and complements them by reflecting the disciplinary knowledge and practices of physics. Approximately eighty-five institutions in the United States conduct research in science and physics education.
Introduction to Electrodynamics is a textbook by the physicist David J. Griffiths. Generally regarded as a standard undergraduate text on the subject,it began as lecture notes that have been perfected over time. Its most recent edition,the fourth,was published in 2013 by Pearson and in 2017 by Cambridge University Press. This book uses SI units exclusively. A table for converting between SI and Gaussian units is given in Appendix C.
A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies is a treatise and textbook on analytical dynamics by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker. Initially published in 1904 by the Cambridge University Press,the book focuses heavily on the three-body problem and has since gone through four editions and has been translated to German and Russian. Considered a landmark book in English mathematics and physics,the treatise presented what was the state-of-the-art at the time of publication and,remaining in print for more than a hundred years,it is considered a classic textbook in the subject. In addition to the original editions published in 1904,1917,1927,and 1937,a reprint of the fourth edition was released in 1989 with a new foreword by William Hunter McCrea.
References
- ↑ "Core Faculty in the Department of Physics". University of Colorado, Boulder. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28.
- ↑ "John R. Taylor C.V." University of Colorado, Boulder. Archived from the original on 2012-10-13.
- ↑ John Robert Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ John R. Taylor (1996). An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements. University Science Books. ISBN 978-0-935702-75-0.
- ↑ Taylor, John R.; Cook, Gayle (2004). "Post-Use Review: Classical Mechanics". American Journal of Physics. American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). 72 (4): 559. doi:10.1119/1.1634968. ISSN 0002-9505.
- ↑ "President's Teaching Scholars Program". University of Colorado, Boulder. Archived from the original on 2010-05-30.
- ↑ "John Taylor Named Hazel Barnes Prize Winner" (Press release). University of Colorado, Boulder. 1999-05-12. Archived from the original on 2010-12-15.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| People | |
| Other | |
  | This article about an American scientist in academia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about an American physicist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |