A NOTE ON THE CHARACTER OF PHYSICAL MODELS REPRESENTING NATURAL PHENOMENA

摘要

The present work deals with the character of a physical model and the corresponding mathematical method to solve the problem. The models are characterized to be simplified imaginary simulations of the real-world systems one attempts to understand. However, models include only those properties and relationships required to understand those aspects of real systems one is interested at the moment, i.e. those aspects of real systems one knows, or those one is aware after all. The rest of the details about a real system is simply neglected from a model. This approach in studying natural phenomena is the essence of the reductionistic approach which represents the heart of the modern scientific method. This paper discusses the fundamental science framework necessary to describe physical systems; equations representing physical laws, values of all constants of nature appearing within equations and initial conditions of a system.