scholarly journals Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Noah Stemeroff
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Physics ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Conservation Of Energy ◽  
Applicability Of Mathematics ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Scientific Claims ◽  
Methodology Of Science

Abstract Perspectival realists often appeal to the methodology of science to secure a realist account of the retention and continued success of scientific claims through the progress of science (e.g. Massimi, 2016). However, in the context of modern physics, the retention and continued success of scientific claims is typically only definable within a mathematical framework. In this paper, I argue that this concern leaves the perspectivist open to Cassirer’s (1910) neo-Kantian critique of the applicability of mathematics in the natural sciences. To support this criticism, I present a case study on the conservation of energy in modern physics.

Study on Implementation of ITK Campus Drainage Master Plan (Case Study: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences)

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Rossana Margaret Kadar Yanti ◽  
Oryza Lhara Sari ◽  
Rizjal Wahyu
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Runoff Discharge ◽  
Technology Area

Two main building Kalimantan Institute of Technology was established on an area of 3500 m2 on October 6, 2014 which serves as the infrastructure for teaching and learning activities of students. The rapid increase in the number of students each year results in an increase in the number of buildings as facilities for teaching and learning. This is the background for the development of the Kalimantan Institute of Technology area by adding five more lecture buildings to support teaching and learning activities for 3500 students. The expansion area for five more lecture buildings is currently under construction in the area of ​​the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The function of the land area has been change due to building construction resulted in an increase in runoff discharge. This condition certainly affects the region if not handled properly. Increased runoff discharge will affect inundation or flooding in the area if it is not equipped with a drainage system as needed. This research is one alternative solution given. This research is in the form of a study on the implementation of a drainage master plan that aims to obtain drainage dimensions such as drainage width, drainage length and drainage depth by observing runoff due to rainwater using the concept of environmentally friendly drainage. The research obtained from the dimensions of tertiary canals with dimensions of 0.10-0.30 meters, secondary channels 0.30-0.45 meters and primary channels 0.35-0.70 meters with the discharge area of ​​the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences ITK is 1.18 m3/ sec.

Microstructure Sensitive Design with First Order Homogenization Theories and Finite Element Codes

2005 ◽  
Vol 495-497 ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surya R. Kalidindi ◽  
J. Houskamp ◽  
G. Proust ◽  
H. Duvvuru
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Inverse Problems ◽  
Mechanical Design ◽  
Materials Design ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
First Order

A mathematical framework called Microstructure Sensitive Design (MSD) has been developed recently to solve inverse problems of materials design, where the goal is to identify the class of microstructures that are predicted to satisfy a set of designer specified objectives and constraints [1]. This paper demonstrates the application of the MSD framework to a specific case study involving mechanical design. Processing solutions to obtain one of the elements of the desired class of textures are also explored within the same framework.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF MOTIVATION TO RESULT OF COGNITIVE LEARNING IN INTERGRATED NATURAL SCIENCES MODEL TEAM GAMES TOURNAMENT (TGT) ASSITANCE BY YUGIOH CARD

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Reda Harwinanda
Keyword(s):  
Science Learning ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Simple Linear Regression ◽  
Team Games ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Positive Effect

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of motivation on the result cognitive learning of the model TGT assisted YuGiOh Card. The population in this study were students of class VII semester 1 with the number of 16 students at MTs Baitul Amin Bali. The type of research design used was pre-experimental design with a one-shot case study. The study used 2 (two) variables examined in this study, namely motivation and result cognitive learning. The method used in data collection in this research is questionnaire (questionnaire), documentation and test. The collected data were analyzed using simple linear regression. Based on the motivation data obtained using themodel TGT assisted by the YuGiOh card in this study, it shows that students who are in the very good motivation category are 62.5% and good categories are 37.5%. Data on students' resultcognitive learning from post-test results can be categorized very well by 6%, both by 31%, enough by 44% and less by 19%. The influence of motivation on result cognitive learning using the model TGT assisted YuGiOh card is 27.2% while the remaining 72.8% is influenced by learning readiness, social support and learning facilities. The results showed that learning motivation had a positive effect on result cognitive learning in science learning using the model TGT assisted by YuGiOh card.

scholarly journals Is Science Eliminating Ordinary Talk?

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Louis Caruana
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
Actual Operation ◽  
Theories Of Meaning ◽  
Methodology Of Science ◽  
Broad Overview

Discussions dealing with natural science, philosophy and common sense are bound to draw on long-standing debates dealing with realism, methodology of science, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, theories of meaning, and other topics. Instead of presenting a broad overview of these main trends, which will necessarily be superficial, I will do a kind of case study. The aim is to present just one particular debate which is of relevance to current research. The presentation is meant to give a taste of how these various long-standing debates are brought to bear on a specific issue. In this way, the very practice of engaging in a particular area of philosophy of science will serve as a platform from where the major areas can be seen in actual operation. The paper has four sections: the nature of ordinary talk; the ontological implications of this; the recently proposed account of the mental; an evaluation.

scholarly journals Formação inicial e condições de trabalho de professores de Ciências da Natureza: estudo de elementos relacionados à formação continuada

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Ventura Fonseca ◽  
Fabiane De Andrade Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Continued Education ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Multiple Case

Resumo: A proposta deste artigo é descrever uma investigação qualitativa, caracterizada como estudo de casos múltiplos, que envolveu sete professores da área de Ciências da Natureza que atuam em uma escola pública estadual do Rio Grande do Sul. Objetivou-se que esses movimentos de pesquisa fornecessem elementos considerados indicadores específicos para a construção de ações futuras de formação continuada. Tendo-se como referência a produção acadêmica contemporânea da área educacional e as diretrizes nacionais para as licenciaturas, foi construído e aplicado um questionário com questões abertas e fechadas, utilizando-se análise de conteúdo como técnica interpretativa das respostas descritivas. As análises efetuadas revelaram aproximações e afastamentos entre as visões dos sujeitos sobre as virtudes e fraquezas pertencentes aos respectivos cursos de formação inicial, bem como especificidades das condições de trabalho e do perfil profissional de cada docente que apresenta potencial para nortear, ainda que de modo parcial, o planejamento desejado.Palavras-chave: Formação docente. Trabalho docente. Educação em Ciências. INITIAL EDUCATION AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF NATURAL SCIENCES TEACHERS: STUDY OF ELEMENTS RELATED TO CONTINUED EDUCATION  Abstract: The purpose of this article is to describe a qualitative investigation characterized as a multiple case study involving seven professors from the Natural Sciences area who work in a state public school in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. These research movements were designed to provide elements regarded as specific indicators in which to base the construction of future actions for continued education. Referring to the contemporary academic production within educational area and national guidelines for undergraduate courses, a questionnaire with open and closed questions was designed and applied using content analysis as an interpretive technique of descriptive answers. Analyses carried out revealed approximations and withdrawals between the subjects' views on the virtues and weaknesses belonging to respective initial education courses, as well as specificities of working conditions and  professional profile of each teacher who has the potential to guide albeit in partially the desired planning.Keywords: Teacher education. Teaching Work. Science Education.

Ethical Aspects of Talking to a Patient

2016 ◽  
pp. 203-235
Author(s):  
Roman Ossowski ◽  
Paweł Izdebski
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Results Of Treatment ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
The Subject

A very important role in the diagnosing process is played by the conversation with a patient, which should always have a diagnostic-therapeutic character. The subject of interest of this paper are the relations between medical personnel and patients. The chapter aimed to explain the application of main ethical theories in conversation with patients as a diagnostic-therapeutic instrument. As an example, a case study illustrates basic ethical principles of such a conversation. It as an instrument of diagnosis and therapy retained its value despite introducing numerous methods of diagnosis based on the findings of modern physics or electronics. In our view, the conversation should always aim at the benefit of the patient and the results of treatment as well as sustaining patient's subjectivity and hope for achieving a higher quality of life.

Against Metaphysical Structuralism

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Ralf Busse
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Essential Dimension ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Modern Physics

Inductive Metaphysics (IM) combines an anti-aprioristic emphasis on an empirical and scientific basis for metaphysics with an insistence on a specifically philosophical abductive theory-building. Since the latter specifically philosophical work is not empirical itself, it may in a liberal sense be called apriori. This paper highlights this apriori dimension within IM by a case study on Structuralism, the view that fundamental reality consists of a network of relations (and properties), which a number of philosophers consider to be suggested by modern physics. Focussing on Dasgupta’s algebraic Generalism, the author argues that Structuralism suffers from a severe entailment problem, because the relations-spanning apparatus must stand for metaphysically fundamental forms. Schaffer’s contention that there are no entailment problems is rejected. Advocates of IM are well advised to take seriously their own insistence on metaphysical abduction and not to one-sidedly emphasise the empirical input: the elaboration of exact metaphysical theories and the apriori evaluation of their inherent tenability is a constituent of IM no less important than the consideration of scientific input. More traditional ways of metaphysical reasoning inevitably survive as an essential dimension within IM.

scholarly journals The New Set Up of Local Performance Indices into WaterNetGen and Application to Santarém’s Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Amos Bonora ◽  
Fabio Caldarola ◽  
Mario Maiolo ◽  
Joao Muranho ◽  
Joaquim Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Water Distribution ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Distribution Network ◽  
Water Distribution Network ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Water Networks ◽  
Performance Indices ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Pressure Driven Analysis

A new set of local performance indices has recently been introduced within a mathematical framework specifically designed to promote a local–global analysis of water networks. Successively, some local indices were also set up and implemented on WaterNetGen to better exploit their potential. In this paper, after a very brief overview of tools and main notations, Santarém’s (Portugal) water distribution network (WDN) is examined, applying to it the mentioned set of local indices, as a new real case study. The paper also focuses on the Hypotesis required to assess these indices in a pressure driven analysis (PDA) approach, analyzing and discussing the results obtained from such a simulation.

I.—Some Philosophical Aspects of Modern Physics

1938 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Born
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Mathematical Physics ◽  
Mathematical Science ◽  
Felix Klein ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Great Scholar

The Chair which I have been elected to occupy, in succession to Professor Darwin, is associated with the name of a great scholar of our fathers' generation, Peter Guthrie Tait. This name has been familiar to me from the time when I first began to study mathematical physics. At that time Felix Klein was the leading figure in a group of outstanding mathematicians at Göttingen, amongst them Hilbert and Minkowski. I remember how Klein, ever eager to link physics with mathematics, missed no opportunity of pointing out to us students the importance of studying carefully the celebrated Treatise on Natural Philosophy of Thomson and Tait, which became a sort of Bible of mathematical science for us.

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