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History of Astroparticle Physics and its Components [PDF]
Living Reviews in Relativity, 2008 This article gives an outline of the historical events that led to the formation of contemporary astroparticle physics. As a starting point for analyzing the history of astroparticle physics this article will review the various, yet scattered pieces of ...
Cirkel-Bartelt Vanessa
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History of History of Physics [PDF]
Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2016 The twelve decades of modern academic history of physics have provided enough material for the study of the history of history of physics, the focus of which is the development of the opinions and methods of historians of physics.
Stanislav Južnič
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Introducing Quantum and Statistical Physics in the Footsteps of Einstein: A Proposal
Universe, 2021 Introducing some fundamental concepts of quantum physics to high school students, and to their teachers, is a timely challenge. In this paper we describe ongoing research, in which a teaching–learning sequence for teaching quantum physics, whose ...
Marco Di Mauro +2 more
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The Quasi-History of Early Quantum Theory
Physics, 2022 While physics has a rather ahistoric teaching tradition, it is common to include at least anecdotal reference to historical events and actors. These brief remarks on the history are typically distorted.
Oliver Passon
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Culture & History Digital Journal, 2021 Science took on several distinct uses and meanings under Francoism. It was exhibited as a token of intellectual prowess, deployed as a mighty diplomatic tool, applied as a resource for industry, and invoked in support of National Catholicism. However, in
Clara Florensa, Xavier Roqué
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Crossing borders in the 19th century and now — two examples of weaving a scientific network
Condensed Matter Physics, 2020 Scientific research is and was at all times a transnational (global) activity. In this respect, it crosses several borders: national, cultural, and ideological. Even in times when physical borders separated the scientific community, scientists kept their
R. Folk, Yu. Holovatch
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The history and the meaning of Einstein’s Principle of Equivalence
Science & Philosophy, 2020 We review from a historical and a didactic point of view the Equivalence Principle, which was considered by Einstein as the corner stone of his new theory of Gravitation: the General Relativity.
Antonio Feoli
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The physical tourist. Physics in Glasgow: a heritage tour [PDF]
, 2006 I trace the history of the physical and applied sciences, and particularly physics, in Glasgow. Among the notable individuals I discuss are Joseph Black (1728-1799), James Watt (1736-1819), William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872), William Thomson ...
Johnston, S.F.
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Development of Physics Comic 'History of Physics Series: The Development of Atom'
Berkala Ilmiah Pendidikan Fisika, 2021 The quality of education can be improved by developing learning methods, curriculum development, and learning media development. One of them is learning media in the form of comics. This research aims to develop physics comics and analyze the validity of
Maharani Ayu Nurdiana Putri +4 more
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In search of relativistic time [PDF]
, 2013 This paper explores the status of some notions which are usually associated to time, like datations, chronology, durations, causality, cosmic time and time functions in the Einsteinian relativistic theories. It shows how, even if some of these notions do
Lachieze-Rey, Marc
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