Why don't we use the math we learn in school?

Re:Why don't we use the math we learn in school? by unethical_ban on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:21PM (#30093585)

I had an eastern European physics teacher in the 2000s. Our classes had word problems about baseballs thrown from the top of buildings to calculate acceleration/speed. I remember him saying "back home all our kinetic physics problems like this were about artillery".

Seemed like some good real world application. Heh.

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Re:Why don't we use the math we learn in school? by inter_netuser on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:38PM (#30093777)

It is.

MIT is the public research arm of the DoD.

Most of fundamental physics research is military connected apnea way or another.

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