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A short note on the buoyant force in nonuniform gravitational fields
Pier Franco Nali
Lima and Monteiro [1] derived the buoyant force in a nonuniform gravitational field by applying a gradient version of the divergence theorem to the surface integral of the pressure…
Estimating gravimetric effects for ordinary bodies
P. F. Nali
The main topic of this article is a discussion about the best way to show students that the proportionality of mass and weight, strictly true for point-like particles, is an excell…
"Perché il mare è blu?": una rivisitazione in chiave pedagogica ("Why is the sea blue": a pedagogical review)
Anna Maria Aloisi, Pier Franco Nali
Popularized explanations of the color of the sea often prove to be incomplete or oversimplified, and hence inadequate to become acquainted with the phenomenon in its whole. In this…
Marbles and Bottles-or Boxes illustrate Irreversibility and Recurrence
Anna Maria Aloisi, Pier Franco Nali
Imaginary assemblies of intercommunicating bottles-or boxes, in which marbles circulate performing random walks, can help modeling (and hence understanding) slow and long-lasting d…