Question

What Mathematical level does it require you to start with Physics?

Answer 1

By "start with physics" you're talking about university? There should be courses on pretty much all the maths you'll need for your physics-courses..

Am I understanding your question?

Answer 2

why I'd say it is upto ur discrition. If you are confident then do it (holds good for anything)

Answer 3

Chemistry and Physics both being inter-related contains equal Maths. There is no natural sciences without the Fundamental Science which is Maths

Answer 4

@Muskan I heard maths was developed for studying sciences :P

Answer 5

I am in Middle school(going fast).
I want to start with Physics—may I know what are the Mathematical prerequisites for starting with Physics?

Answer 6

@ParthKohli
dear you need to learn just derivation and integration to study physics as you will study further physics will be distinguished from chemistry and will be merged with mathematics completely. . .
you will study fourier series in both physics and maths in graduation. . .

Answer 7

Well this rly depends on what you want to learn about. Calculus seems to be the obvious one, but you do need Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, Statistics - basically everything.. like vamagadu said, math's like the 'language' of physics. So for example, Newton was looking into the motion of bodies and invented calculus, so he could describe it.

So ahm.. what are you most interested in? If you got nothing specific, usually one starts like this:

1. Mechanics of a point mass: Newtons laws, Work, Momentum, Energy (Conservation), Gravity, Kepler etc.
2. Special Relativity
3. Center of Mass, Moment of Inertia, Collisions (relativistic and classical)
4. Angular Momentum (Steiner Theorem), generic rotations
5. Solids and Liquids (Hook, friction, suface tension, etc etc)
6. Gases (kinematic theory, diffusion, brownian motion, etc)
7. Fluid mechanics (naviar-stokes, aerodynamics, etc)
8. Thermodynamics

Oscillators and machanical waves are somewhere in there, too - can't remember if we did them as a seperate thingy or not. Anywho, Guess that was my first semester of university and mist of 'em do it in a similar fashion.

2nd Semster is Electromagnetism and Optics and 3rd Semester is introduction to quantum mechanics and atomic stuff..

My suggestion would be: Just start learning about physics and you'll see what kind of math you'll need... jsut learn the math "on-demand". In any case, you should know about algebra for solving equations and have a basic knowledge of calculus...

Answer 8

Seems like I'd focus on my Mathematics for a while, as I have just started Calculus :)

Answer 9

woaah @MuH4hA lol i ddnt studied this much till my m.sc that you have written here about math . . .
good work

Answer 10

Well, statistics is teached later on, but we do linear algebra and calculus in the first semester (and calculus II in the second) and also as a seperate course, there's "practical mathematics", where you don't do all the proofs but just learn the methode and it's something like: coordinate-systems, line-integrals over a scalar and a vector-field, more-dimensional integration, ordinary differential equations in the first semester. And in the second it looks something like: Green/Stokes/Gauß, Poisson-Equation, Heat-Equation, Wave-Equation
So it's quite a bit of math - there's "mathematical methods of theoretical physics" in the 3rd semester, too.

But I guess, one forgets half the stuff until you really need it - I still don't even got my BSc, so I can't rly comment on that, though :p