1.2 Mathematics as the language for physics

That brings us automatically to our next subject, the fact that part of mathematics was developped to describe real-world problems, and thus is the natural language of physics. Let us study this issue by looking at a number of examples.

Example 1.1: 

Describe the motion of a particle under a constant force

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Example 1.2: 

Discuss the equilibrium of forces in a spiders web.

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Example 1.3: 

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