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, […]
We can commonly notice small things – leaves, pieces of paper, etc., – adhering to each other and floating together on the water. The reasons of this behaviour are explained. […]
We begin to study the properties of gases through a well-known mechanical model, then we perform a school-Iab replica of Volta’s experiment on the dilatation of gases at constant pressure. After observing that the behaviour of air is close to that of ideal gases, […]
A few experiments on the behaviour of real gases were performed. They show that the behaviour of air at constant temperature is quite similar to that of an ideai gas but, at constant pressure and varying temperature, the different behaviours of various gases (air, […]