A commercial adaptor between the US and European mains standard plugs can be modified to act as a voltage transformer. No heat is produced because a reactive and not a resistive divider is used. The device is a simple example of the Ohm’s law in AC circuits. […]
An interactive Java Applet aimed at helping students to understand classical relative motion is described. The applet simulates the fall of a body from an airplane with or without air friction. The learner can fix the system of reference to the ground or to the airplane. […]
Locating the sites of major meteoritic impacts implies using knowledge from a number of sciences: nuclear physics, astronomy, geology, mineralogy and chemistry. The article proposes a simplified version of the complex scientific as an exercise in nuclear physics. […]