Timeline for Request for further clarification on question on hold
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 8, 2014 at 21:47 | comment | added | David Z Mod | @tpg2114 (3 comments up) actually we did resolve that issue fairly recently - the help center has been updated to say that questions about pure math in a physical context are on topic. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 1:32 | comment | added | tpg2114 | @ACuriousMind Feel free to contribute to the discussion or start a new one (if you want to take a different approach to it -- like "How to handle questions that don't ask about pure math but whose answers are pure math" or something). The discussions sometimes end up being unresolved just because it's the same groups of people always responding. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 1:26 | comment | added | ACuriousMind Mod | @tpg2114: Huh, not what I expected. Thanks for the links, however. I will have to dwell on this for a while. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 1:23 | comment | added | tpg2114 | @ACuriousMind This is sort of an open area of debate actually. Pure math that arises from a physics question/concept... we haven't really decided very clearly if it is on topic or off. See for example this question and this question | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 23:56 | comment | added | ACuriousMind Mod | giulio's comment, which you linked, just answers the question: "How do we calculate the variation of the action with respect to a path?" (which is indeed the question I think the OP wanted to have answered). This is, by the variational calculus argument of dmckee under my post, a pure math question and thus off-topic. Or so I would conclude from your comments. Am I wrong? | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 23:55 | comment | added | Manishearth Mod | @daniel no problem :) Also, Physics Chat may be helpful for you when people are around, this is advanced enough so people won't mind helping :) | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 23:47 | comment | added | daniel | Your answer and ACuriousMind's answer are responsive and helpful. I think it's enough to allow me to make a better call next time, thanks. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 23:32 | history | answered | ManishearthMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |