What is the impact of mathematics on the physical sciences?

Question

If possible I would like to go back to the history of math and physical sciences and look back.

Answer 1

Mathematics helps model physical science. For example, the formula s = 1/2gtt (distance = 1/2 gravitational constant times time squared) can be used to predict how far an object will free fall from rest subject to the earth's gravitational attraction within a given interval. It is just a model and does not alter the real phenomenon since g varies with elevation above sea level and wind resistance will affect the rate of descent of pillows and lead weights. Mathematical models are very useful if you know their limitations. Falling objects on the moon would still be affected by elevation but not wind resistance, right? Pure mathematicians often develop advanced math as a consistent logical game with rules with little or no thought to practical applications. Applied mathematicians (and engineers?) seek advanced math (like suits in a store) to find a method that helps solve their physical problems. The use of Bessel functions to predict and control the release of heat as concrete cures in a huge dam might be a good example of pure math followed by practical application.

Answer 2

Mathematics and physical sciences have always been intimately linked.

Read about math in the anscient Greeks and their observations of stars.

Same with Kepler and his prediction using math of the stars.

Same with Newton and his definition of physical laws using math
He developed the calculus

See how Maxwell, Planck, Einstein and other scientists described their work.

You question is puzzling, almost like you think you discovered something unique. Were you sleeping in 8th grade science?

Answer 3

All of Newton's experiments were based first on measurement, then on reproducibility, then on his ability to transform the physical phenomenon he witnessed into the language of mathematics. The equations he developed is the basis of modern physics. The same could be said of Keppler and astronomy, Boyle and Charles for Chemistry. Mathematics is the language of science.

Answer 4

In all fields of sport think approximately to talk by way of language. in the sciences we've have been given to have a language it somewhat is according to measuring, defining. arithmetic is the language of the sciences as arithmetic furnish's a language generic completely on measuring and defining.