Tradotto e pubblicato con autorizzazione dell’American Association of Physics Teachers e degli autori da: G. De Palma, M. C. Sormani, “Counterintuitive effect of gravity on the heat capacity of a metal sphere: re-examination of a well-known problem”, American Journal of Physics, […]
This paper reports a teaching approach to the Seebeck effect, with attention to the historical, theoretical and experimental aspects. […]
This article deals with the most important characteristic of Einstein thought, in relation to his opposition versus the Quantum Mechanics. A new explanation is proposed for this contrast: Einstein tries to understand microscopic phenomena by a non linear theory, to obtain with an opportune generalization the General Relativity. […]
Einstein’s writings are examined in order to see how he treated the concept of mass and in particular if he ever introduced relativistic mass. The conclusion is that relativistic mass never appears – with the possible exception of the book The Evolution of Physics where some passages might lead the reader to think that mass depends on velocity. […]