A simple experiment to demonstrate streamline flow around a sphere falling at terminal velocity in a viscous fluid. […]
A ‘photovoltaic fountain’ uses solar energy to drive a water pump. The nature of the energy source is made evident by the immediate response of the height of the water jet to changes in the intensity of the sunlight. […]
The Force Concept Inventory is designed to evaluate the teaching quality of a course on Newtonian mechanics. The structure of the FCI and its reference to students’ common concepts and misconceptions are discussed in relation to some of its items. Two actual examples of how the results can be analyzed are presented. […]
This article discusses the education of school-teachers in Western Germany alter the sixties, in the context of the school System, and reports the curriculum adopted in 1987 at the University of Kiel for students preparing to become physics teachers. […]
As it is written in many books, within a vehicle in free fall or in a spacecraft orbiting the Earth, everything goes as if there were no gravity, a situation commonly described as “weightlessness.” In the handbooks on relativity, a free-falling vehicle is considered as an example and a practical realization of an inertial reference system. […]
Several demonstrations are described, illustrating dynamic interactions between alternating currents and fields. […]
In this work, we will examine the historical evolution of the core of dynamics, the relationship between forces and motion, focusing particularly on the principle of inertia. Our aim is to highlight an aspect that seems to us to be largely underestimated in literature, […]