3 papers
physics.hist-ph2024
The Compton scientific mission in Brazil in 1941: a perspective from national newspaper and documents of the time
Francisco Caruso, Adílio Marques, Felipe Silveira
Starting from the perspective of reports published in Brazilian newspapers at the time, as well as letters exchanged between scientists who worked in Brazil and North American coll…
physics.class-ph2023
On the Galilean covariance of the d'Alembert equation for acoustic phenomena
Francisco Caruso, Vitor Oguri, Felipe Silveira
The covariance of the d'Alembert equation for acoustic phenomena -- which is a mechanical wave equation -- under the conventional Galilean transformation is demonstrated without th…
nlin.CD2022
Characterizing a transition from limited to unlimited diffusion in energy for a time-dependent billiard
Felipe Augusto O. Silveira, Anne Kétri P. da Fonseca, Peter Schmelcher +2
We explore Fermi acceleration in a driven oval billiard which shows unlimited to limited diffusion in energy when passing from the free to the dissipative case. We provide evidence…