Physics Tips, Trivia and Experiments

18/02/19| Curiosities•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 […]

02/03/17| Physics curiosities•Uncategorized

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 […]

10/10/17| Curiosities•Physics curiosities

Glass is one of the most common materials and therefore we have contact with it daily in glasses, glasses, glasses, etc. But what is the physical state of the glass? This recurring doubt is due to the fact that glass is neither solid nor liquid, but a middle ground. When the atoms that make up […]

10/10/17| How it works•Physics curiosities•Physics in everyday life•Uncategorized

Twenty-six years ago, in the movie ” Back to the Future ”, today’s days were seen as very futuristic and one of the movie’s predictions was that ‘Where we go we do not need roads’, this was not much prediction, but a new model of train is coming to revolutionize our means of transport. The […]

09/10/17| Experimental physics•Physics curiosities

Do you know Neuromorphic technology? This new computing platform integrates physics, math, computing and neuroscience to create computers inspired by the human brain, simulating artificial synapses that surpass the world’s fastest supercomputers! The world’s fastest supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight, performs more calculations per second than a human brain, but consumes about 800.00 times more energy. […]

10/10/17| Curiosities•Physics curiosities

The Sun is the central star of the solar system. And all the planets, asteroids, comets, dust and satellites rotate around them. It has a mass 332.900 times greater than that of Earth, and a volume 1.300.000 times greater. Already in the first years of school we learned about the magnitude of this star. But […]

09/10/17| Experimental physics•Physics curiosities

Recently, it was discovered a way to store digital data using half the space than current systems require and can store up to 7 bits using colors. What is Bit? Bit is the acronym for Binary Digit. It is the smallest unit of information that can be stored or transmitted. A bit has a single […]