Preliminary study of integrated physics and mathematics bridging course

Tan, U-Xuan; Zhu, Yajuan; Lee, Chee Huei; Toh, Tin Lam; Sze, Guan Kheng; Tay, Shirley; Wong, Darren; Pey, K. L.

doi:10.1109/educon.2017.7942993

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“…As examples of their responses, they gained knowledge of integration and forces exerted on the dam at once and this lesson clearly demonstrated the use of calculus in physics. This result agrees well with the result in [4] where students also said they had realised the importance of both courses. Moreover, they said that they had an opportunity to solve challenging problems related to more realistic situations of the dams.…”

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Physics meets mathematics: a dam model ^*

Maungchang¹,

Dam-O²

2021

Phys. Educ.

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This paper demonstrates an experimental integrated lesson of physics and calculus in a topic of fluid force applying on different shapes of dams. This lesson was designed for the first year students in engineering program in an attempt to show them the connection between these two disciplines, as well as to introduce more advanced engineering-physics problems to them. Experimental results present students' learning achievement from pre-test, homework and post-test scores, students' ability in solving problems using an appropriate method, and students' satisfactory on the integrated lesson. The authors hope that our work could provide other lecturers in different fields with an idea to conduct crossover lessons or courses and encourage them to do so. This practice will not only enable students to apply their knowledge to practical applications, but also is a way to create collaborative atmosphere among lecturers, broadening their interdisciplinary knowledge and sharing teaching ideas to one another.

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“…The second task is the writing of an integral representing the total force acting on a straight dam which leads to the general formula shown in equation (4). The total force is simply the average force of the top and bottom of the dam.…”

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