18:08 Feb 20, 2011 

I agree that re-classifying it as physics might be a good idea...
This is, in my experience, a course most frequently taught in freshman physics first semester. Of course, it can be applied math or chemistry as well. After all, theoretical chemists like me, use models to study chemical reactions...

16:34 Feb 20, 2011 

Standard textbook applied mathematics or not, most people haven't gone much further than A-level (school leaver) maths and so a reference is really required to support the 'kinematics' equivalence; then you'll get my vote ;@)

10:46 Feb 20, 2011 

Yes, everything you say is correct. I was only remarking in passing that re-classification would be a good idea.

03:07 Feb 20, 2011 

but, I agree that it may be more appropriate for classification purposes in this setting, to categorize this as "physics"...

03:00 Feb 20, 2011 

Yes, this topic, among others, is a standard part of the curriculum of chemistry majors. Even though, the public may think of chemistry studying chemicals, only, but that is not the case. Some, chemists, like me, will stop seeing chemicals after their B.S. and work with mathematical methods, mathematical proofs, physics problems, and abstract algebra. This is so because apparently specialization in scientific fields eventually leads to mathematics and physics... The type of question may not be chemical, but it is part of the discipline of modern day chemistry...