Some background material on vectors and matrices.
Category: Explain It!
The glamorous celebrity tutors of Hong Kong
How can anyone learn anything within an education system which is solely about examinations?
In Hong Kong, the pressure is so great that tutors have become rather sad celebs.
I can’t see this ever happening in Scotland, thank goodness.
Private tutors in state schools?
Hmm….not sure which government genius thought this one up.
Here is a plan which seems unlikely ever to take off.
Complex numbers
What happens when you try to take the square root of -1?
Here are some useful examples.
Feynmania on the BBC
Richard Feynman describes how much fun it is to think up explanations of the physical world.
Innate geometry?
Is everyone really born with a deep understanding of geometry?
Ideal gas equation
Maths and science videos
YouTube have pulled together all of their educational material in one place. Definitely worth spending some time here. Don’t forget to make your own notes!
Dot.physics
This is my favourite wired.com blog.
I really admire Rhett Allain’s enthusiasm and his willingness to try out explanations of physical phenomena -very publicly.
This gives a clear insight into how physicists (and engineers and applied mathematicians ) think. There is a great deal of working through thought experiments and iterating towards a theory which accounts well for the known observations.
Definitely worth a read-through.
Plus magazine
Here is an online magazine with some really great content -from introductory to quite advanced. A good source of ideas and explanations.
