{"id":1857,"date":"2014-05-06T21:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2014-05-06T21:05:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:05:51","slug":"campaign-for-smiths-law-to-be-part-of-c1-a-level-maths-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/05\/campaign-for-smiths-law-to-be-part-of-c1-a-level-maths-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign for Smith’s Law to be Part of C1 A Level Maths Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smith’s Law states:<\/p>\n

The area between two curves is the integral of the top curve minus the bottom curve.<\/p>\n

I have emailed edexcel asking them to put this on their syllabus. If you think this is a vanity campaign, think of Boltzmann, after whom a constant is named – botzmann’s constant, k which is the raio of the universal gas constant N_A, Avagadro’s constant. There are billions of functions of useless constants whichcan be constructed as functions of other constants – more than enough for every person of the planet to have one named after them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smith’s Law states: The area between two curves is the integral of the top curve minus the bottom curve. I have emailed edexcel asking them to put this on their syllabus. 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