There is a simpler way.
Screenshot what you're doing and paste it in. Makes the documents huge, but quicker than doing it by hand and scanning it.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 11 Nov 2010, 16:04, 1 reply)

Probably not
A lot of physics problems are very quick to do on paper, but would take aaages in pretty much any program, particularly as there are some variables that have odd greek symbols and so on.

Edit: Half the time you're adding bits in and writing little notes as you go along to remind yourself what to do next, and that sort of thing is hard to recreate too.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 16:09, closed)

Oh right
I thought there was some kind of specialised program for it or something.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 11 Nov 2010, 16:13, closed)

There are a few
But they tend to be more for mathematical modelling and so forth - applications where you can group stuff together to create your own little functions and there's not such a requirement to show how you arrived there. But I don't think you'll find any serious physicist or mathematician who doesn't prefer to do their calculations by hand.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 16:18, closed)

Ah, oh well.
Or, you could use a graphics tablet and Photoshop?
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 11 Nov 2010, 16:23, closed)

Theoretically
But now you're getting into the area where it's really not much slower to use a scanner.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 17:52, closed)

Or....
Or, you could use a graphics tablet and Photoshop?

Or a graphics tablet and Word, you can draw straight into the document.
(GoodLord doesn't have time for sigs., Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:03, closed)