Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...

Discover why calculus is essential to truly understanding physics and how it unlocks the deeper meaning behind motion, forces, energy, and change. This video explains the close relationship between ...

Attention calculus and physics lovers—this deep explanation dives beneath the formulas to reveal the ideas that truly power these subjects. Explore the intuition behind key concepts, see how calculus ...

In a major shift for one of the nation's most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have completed calculus, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The California Institute of Technology has ...

Specialized A redesigned A-level maths could focus on the needs of physics and non-physics students. (Courtesy: iStock/SolStock) Early in my teaching career, I had a rather uncomfortable exchange with ...

Have you ever tried searching Google for answers to your homework, and more specifically, math and science problems? Back in the day, this was a hard feat, as Google would only lead users to websites ...

Dwight E. Neuenschwander: Tensor Calculus for Physics, Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2014, 248 S., geb., $45.00, ISBN: 9781421415659 Understanding tensors is essential for any physics ...

I voted for the calc based physics. While its been awhile, I don't recall the calculus they put you through in physics 101 being all that intense. And I also recall having it fairly well spelled out, ...

Kimberly Miranda is the brainy daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and the first in her family to attend college. But she almost didn’t make it to the California Institute of Technology. Her Redwood ...