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- Title
THE MATHEMATICAL CONTENT OF TWO GENERAL COLLEGE PHYSICS TEXTS.
- Authors
Hausdoerffer, William H.
- Abstract
The article presents a study, conducted at the Rutgers University, School of Education in New Jersey in 1950, on mathematical facts, skills, and concepts required to cope with expositions and problems contained in the college physics texts examined. The mathematical calculations that must be performed by the student using any of the texts examined involve skills, facts, and concepts usually associated with junior high school or high school mathematics. The student of general college physics would be greatly aided if his mathematical background included significant experiences with standard numbers, vectors, conversion of units and other mathematical skills. College physics requires a fair degree of mathematical maturity in that the student is left to his own mathematical resources without the indication frequently found in mathematics texts that certain problems are going to involved particular concepts, facts and skills.
- Subjects
NEW Jersey; MATHEMATICS education; PHYSICS education; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; JUNIOR high schools; HIGH schools; COLLEGE students; PHYSICAL sciences; EDUCATION
- Publication
Science Education, 1952, Vol 36, Issue 4, p250
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article