The combined effects of the Sun’s gravitational attraction and of the pressure of radiation allow to calculate the maximum dimensions of electrically neutral dusts in one of the tails of a comet. […]
In a previous paper, the same author showed that the usual definition of thermal efficiency of heat engines becomes intrinsically ambiguous when applied to cycles in which the system exchanges heat in both senses with the same thermal reservoir, and proposed two ways in which (in order to resolve this ambiguity) the elementary definition can be precised, […]
This article analyses notorious problems concerning Newlon’s third law against the historical background. A proposal is made to reformulate this law by substituting the term ‘interaction’ far ‘action’ and ‘reaction’. […]
Information about the French biennial Conferences on Computers in physical science teaching. […]