Recent content by Euan

Thank you for your advice. I will try to obtain the book from a library and compare its treatment with my daughter's school textbook (where, unfortunately, the material is rather thin). Euan

Thanks for the recommendations. There are several books (on Amazon) by Silberberg. Did you mean: Principles of General Chemistry? If so, is this suitable for GCSE (UK) level Chemistry? Euan

My daughter (12) is coming to end of the first year of a four-year course in Chemistry leading to GCSE (here in the UK). I would welcome recommendations about suitable textbooks (preferably with answers/teacher's notes) that I can use to help her as she prepares for year-end exams (and for...

[FONT="Arial"][SIZE="2"]I am probably not phrasing this question precisely enough but ... ... are Number Theorems true regardless of the Number Base? In particular, is any given Number Theorem that is true in Base 10 equally true in Base 2? Thank you. Euan

[FONT="Arial"][SIZE="2"]My thanks to everyone who responded; you have given me a good deal to read and think about. As I said at the start, I am neither a physicist nor mathematician; you are all far more expert than I am. But I still do have a nagging feeling that there may be a different...

[FONT="Arial"][SIZE="2"][FONT="Arial"]Pythagorean, Legion81, Will.c (and with further reference to Robertm) Thank you for your replies. One of the implications behind all replies so far is that there is a difference, a separation, between the phenomena and their description; in short, they...

[FONT="Arial"][SIZE="2"]Robertm Thank you for your reply and welcome. Would you not agree, that if mathematics fails to properly explain a phenomenon, then the problem is more likely inherent to the language, and not the phenomenon? Yes, I would agree although we might discuss what is...

Spideyunlimit Thank you for your reply. May I push you a little further on this and turn it around? Could one argue (from your reply) that physics studies phenomena that are best described by mathematical relations and functions (as opposed to, say, being described by a language such as...

[FONT="Arial"][SIZE="2"] Borek Thank you for your reply and this reference. I will follow up the suggestions there first. Euan

[FONT="Arial"][SIZE="2"]I love and am absolutely fascinated by both mathematics and physics but have no training of any worth in either. As such I should be grateful if anyone answering any of the three questions below avoids (if at all possible) terminology or language that requires such...