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Martin Burrett

Physical Mathematics by @iwilsonysj - 0 views

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    "I often sit on a Thursday evening about 2000hrs and watch the ukedchat hashtag. This week it was about physical education. Although this is not one of my strong subjects in teaching (or even in real life) I was interested in the first question which asked how physical education could be related to literacy and/or mathematics. Just like a GSCE multiple choice essay question I chose to answer how it could be related to mathematics. You can see the full tweet chat conversation here - but I thought I would expand my response in this week's waffle."
Garrett Eastman

Condensed concepts: Is it mathematics or physics? - 1 views

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    Brief musing on mathematical physics with links to a variety of perspectives on the influence of math on physics.
Garrett Eastman

Levi, M.: The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems. - 7 views

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    Well received book on using physics to demonstrate mathematical concepts by Mark Levi, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University
Garrett Eastman

Adventures in Mathematical Knitting - 1 views

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    by dr. sarah-marie belcastro, "You might wonder why one would want to knit mathematical objects. One reason is that the finished objects make good teaching aids; a knitted object is flexible and can be physically manipulated, unlike beautiful and mathematically perfect computer graphics. And the process itself offers insights: In creating an object anew, not following someone else's pattern, there is deep understanding to be gained. To craft a physical instantiation of an abstraction, one must understand the abstraction's structure well enough to decide which properties to highlight. Such decisions are a crucial part of the design process, but for the specifics to make sense, we must first consider knitting geometrically."
MariaDroujkova

mathfuture - HyperbolicGuitarsCourse - 2 views

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    LOG IN January 24th 9pm ET: http://tinyurl.com/MathFutureEvent Music and mathematics have been linked together for thousands of years, but rarely have students had the opportunity to explore the many connections that exist between them. To try to fill this gap, Mike Thayer of Hyperbolic Guitars is developing a course. At the event, we will discuss the course outline, as well as math and music links in general. All events in the Math Future weekly series: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events The recording will be at http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/HyperbolicGuitarsCourse Event challenge! Help Mike find a resource - a web page, a video, a music piece - to go with one of the topics in the course outline. Full syllabus and details of the outline: http://hyperbolicguitars.wikispaces.com/Math+%26+Music+Course Major topics: What is sound, anyway? The physics of waves The mathematics of waves Resonance Elasticity The generation of sound by "simple" systems The vibrating string The vibrating rod The vibrating plate (e.g., drumhead or cymbal) Open and closed pipes The Helmholtz resonator (--> the vocal chords) White noise, pink noise The concept of "timbre" The perception of sound Human listeners Other "listeners": Digital recording The interaction between the generator and the listener: the science of acoustics What makes sound become music? What does a listener "listen for" in music? Basics of music and musical notation: Musical descriptions Basics of music: Psycho-physical (auditory) descriptions What makes sound "musical" (
Garrett Eastman

Measuring hell - The Boston Globe - 7 views

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    Mount Holyoke physics professor Mark Peterson argues that Galileo's applications of mathematics to Dante's Inferno laid the groundwork for his later discoveries (to be expanded on in a forthcoming book: ""Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts" )
Garrett Eastman

Mathematicians say magnetic fields can send particles to infinity | R&D Mag - 1 views

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    "Researchers in Spain have recently proved, mathematically, that particles charged in a magnetic field can escape into infinity without ever stopping. When this happens, under a certain set of conditions, particles will either never stop, as in a loop, or actually escape the limits of a spherical surface, no matter how big the surface may be."
Garrett Eastman

Music & Noise - The Physics Hypertextbook - 10 views

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    "the distinction between music and noise is mathematical form":
Garrett Eastman

Design of Trigonometry Apps for Vocational Education - 7 views

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    Abstract: "How can smartphones apps enrich the learning of mathematics in vocational education? This article examines how mathematics teaching can be enriched by apps using smartphone sensors such as gyroscope, compass, camera, and touch screen in a gaming context. An iterative and participatory design process involving two classes of carpentry students from different vocational colleges resulted in two highly successful and course-relevant games based on trigonometry. Each game consists of quests and missions whose successful completion unlocks more theoretical multiple-choice exercises for the classroom. The combination of competition to unlock exercises, competition for placing on the high-score list, and physical activity proved very motivating for the students and was also approved by their teachers. In this article we describe our design principles, the overall game architecture and the games themselves. We talk about our experience in implementing our design process and subsequently summarize the pros and cons of the application and the smartphone platform and how the app developed contributes to vocational mathematics teaching"
Garrett Eastman

Emmy Noether, the Most Significant Mathematician You've Never Heard Of - 11 views

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    "Albert Einstein called her the most "significant" and "creative" female mathematician of all time, and others of her contemporaries were inclined to drop the modification by sex. She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics: symmetry in nature and the universal laws of conservation."
Garrett Eastman

Does infinity exist? - 4 views

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    Text from an interview with John H. Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, discussing history of cultural understanding of infinity, as well as different understandings of infinity - mathematical, physical, cosmological
Maggie Verster

Mindset Learn: Great videos and interactive manipulatives for maths and science - 1 views

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    Mindset Learn is aimed at high school learners and teachers in Grade 10, 11 and 12. Content is curriculum aligned with a specific focus on Mathematics, Physical Science and English.
Garrett Eastman

Physicist uses maths to avoid traffic penalty - 2 views

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    "A physicist faced with a fine for running a stop sign has proved his innocence by publishing a mathematical paper, and has even won a prize for his efforts. Dmitri Krioukov is a physicist based at the University of California in San Diego."
Garrett Eastman

Make way for mathematical matter - physics-math - 05 January 2011 - New Scientist - 10 views

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    Nils Baas of the Norwegian University demonstrates some unusual topological structures that have implications for "new forms of matter."
Darren Kuropatwa

Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos - 5 views

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    includes some mathematical symbols too.
Garrett Eastman

Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck: My Life and Careers | MIT World - 11 views

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    video of a lecture at MIT given by professor and entrepreneur James Simons, who taught math at Stony Brook, founded an investment business, and now runs the Simons Foundation which "supports basic math and physics as well as autism research."
Ced Paine

Tutorial Modules - 0 views

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    Tutorial Modules for high school students in mathematics and physics includes animations and virtual laboratories.
Garrett Eastman

Loose Ends at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy... - 3 views

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    Among a number of math related questions on this blog, this post focuses on a particular sequence of integrals
Garrett Eastman

How We Measure the Universe, Animated | Brain Pickings - 10 views

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    A video from the Royal Observatory Greenwich explaining how maths are used in measurement in astronomy and cosmology.
Garrett Eastman

Indian-Origin Boy In Germany Solves Newton's 350-Year-Old Math Problem - 6 views

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    16-year old solves particle dynamics theories which eluded traditional computational problem solving
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