Treating differentials as fractions

Teaching restarts today

Today my teaching duties restart once more - this semester I’ll only be teaching Classical Thermodynamics for the Mathematics BSc. Last year’s course was very successful, and I hope to be able to replicate the success this year. Since I will be teaching mathematicians, for today’s first lecture I decided to set the record straight and openly admit that, yes, we physicists do simplify differentials and treat them as fractions. Hopefully this helped break the ice! Once more, all my teaching material will be made publicly available, while being regularly updated, on the English and Italian versions of my teaching page.