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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of the importance of formulae. Practical applications of formulae such as E=mc2 are discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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students, however, wonder about the practical utility or importance of formulae beyond their necessity to scholarship. The answer to such a question is highlighted when one begins to think of
formulae in the context of active experimentation; the recent coffee can experiment is a great example in that it involved the class performing active physical tasks in reality that, when
measured, acted as empirical proof of a known formula (in this case, a formula relating to the pressure exerted by water, and its proportionality to the velocity of that waters
egress through a hole in the bottom of its container). This is an excellent experiment because it not only provides proof of the formula for one to see firsthand, but
it also intuitively conveys the practical importance of the formula; one who does the coffee can experiment can immediately see how this formula of fluid dynamics could be useful in
real life scenarios such as preventing a sewer system from overflowing, or developing a hydraulic lift system. This same concept applies to all formulae; one can grasp their inherent importance
if one seeks to understand how they correspond to reality in a direct and meaningful way. One might fairly ask why formulae are needed at all; the equation from the
coffee can experiment was derived from the observations of the experiment itself, and those observations just so happened to correspond with the historically established formula for fluid behavior in those
circumstances. However, it is obvious that the need to experimentally make observations and draw inferences for any given set of circumstances would quickly grow tedious. By creating a formula that
represents the underlying principles for why a specific set of observations was gained in a given context, one can then apply that formula to similar contexts in the future, and
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