All flavors of our math major require calculus level intro physics, so
our math department has no problems getting math majors to take physics.
Indeed, the little "trade" school where I was enrolled, (not in
Pasadena), the math major required a year of physics and one course of a
math intensive advanced science course, (they had a list of approved
courses) I don't remember all of the courses, but this list included
P-chem, E&M, and classical mechanics. Most math majors took either E&M
or classical mechanics as those only had pre-requisites that they
already had taken, i.e. intro physics and calculus. The P-chem had
several other chemistry pre-requisites, so I got the impression that
that was a lesser used option.
OTOH, my physics major required that we take linear algebra from the
math department. I had thought that this is quite common, but lately
I've been wondering??
________________________
Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605-688-4293
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Forum for Physics Educators
| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Cohen
| Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:58 AM
| To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
| Subject: Re: student mathematical capability
|
| Michael Edmiston wrote:
| <snip>
| > Please understand that the math profs at my institution are as
| > exasperated over this type of student as I am. That's why
| they try to
| > get their students to take my physics course.
| > But their 10% success rate at getting their majors to take
| physics is
| > abysmal.
| <snip>
|
| What is preventing them from *requiring* physics in their curriculum?
|
| ____________________________________________________
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| University; E. Stroudsburg, PA 18301
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