02/03/17| Physics curiosities
Every four years we have a year with 366 days, called leap year, which was created in order to adjust the annual calendar to the Earth’s translation movement. In the leap year, the month of February has 29 days, instead of 28, as in other years. Whay does it happen? The year is the time […]
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03/03/17| Physics curiosities•Physics in everyday life
Do you know how tall you are? What about your weight? And how long does it take to do certain activities? Measurements such as meter, kilogram, second and several others are very important for the study of physics. But, far beyond that, they are essential in our everyday life. We separate some curiosities and explanations […]
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18/02/19| Curiosities•Ótica•Physics curiosities•Physics in everyday life
In physics a mirror can represent much more challenging puzzles than finding out who the reflected face is. Perhaps that is why studying or just possessing knowledge in this area is so interesting and disruptive. What are plane mirrors? Plane mirrors can be defined as structures whose surface is plane and polished, and shapes can […]
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02/03/17| Physics curiosities
The Earth’s magnetic field works as a magnetic field from a big bar magnet, crossing the south pole to the north pole of the planet. In case of a magnet, the north is atracted by the south, that is, the north pole of the magnet points out to the south pole of the magnetic field […]
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02/03/17| Physics curiosities
The auroras borealis and australis are visual phenomena and real colorful light shows which happen in polar regions of our planet. They can be seen with the naked eye at night or at the end of the day and they occur due to the interaccion among energy charged particles, coming from solar winds, and the […]
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02/03/17| Physics curiosities
The rainbow is na optical phnomenon caused by refraction of the light in the raindrop and it arises due to the sepation of the colors that form the sunlight. The rainbor can be observed whenever there are droplets of water suspended in the atmosphere and the sunlight is reflecting above the observer at low altitude […]
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02/03/17| Physics curiosities
Thermology is na area of physics responsable for studying heat and its effects on matter. Thermology studies are devoted to understanding heat-related manifestations, such as heating or cooling, or even changes in physicial state of matter, when it receives or loses heat. How can heat be exchanged among bodies? What are the characteristics of each […]
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