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From Prompts to Physical Laws: A Generative AI Workflow for Engineering Physics Education
Laura B. Alvarado-Cruz, Josep Ll. Suñer, Pedro Yuste +3
This work explores the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a source of synthetic experimental content for introductory physics courses in engineering education. Using…
Analytical and Experimental Study of a Variable-Mass Oscillator with Constant Mass Loss
Rod Milbrandt, Josep Ll. Suñer, Juan C. Castro-Palacio +2
We present an analytical and experimental study of a variable-mass oscillator with constant mass loss. Starting from the equation of motion of a spring-mass system whose mass decre…
Bringing Engineering into the Physics Lab: Exploring Crank-Slider Dynamics with Smartphones
Josep Ll. Suñer, Rod Milbrandt, Juan C. Castro-Palacio +3
Many of the students enrolled in the calculus-based physics sequence are pursuing engineering degrees. Lab activities that have a direct connection to engineering, analyzed with th…
Uniform and Accelerated Circular Motion with a Smartphone: A No-Code, AI-Generated Browser Laboratory
Josep Ll. Suñer, Francisco M. Muñoz-Pérez, Juan C. Castro-Palacio +4
Smartphones have become a standard measurement instrument in the physics laboratory. Their built-in accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and cameras have been used to investi…
Combining Physics and Mathematics Learning: A Taylor Series Analysis of an Oscillating Magnetic Field
Santiago Ortuno-Molina, Adrian Garmendia-Martinez, Pedro Fernandez-de-Cordoba +3
In this work, we present a simple and low-cost experiment designed to study the oscillations of the magnetic field created by a cylindrical magnet under two different conditions: f…
Using a remote control to determine the infrared absorption coefficient in water
Santiago Ortuno-Molina, Adrian Garmendia-Martinez, Francisco M. Munoz-Perez +2
In this work, we present a simple and low cost experiment designed to determine the infrared water absorption coefficient. We used a TV remote control as a point source of infrared…
A very low-current electromagnetic induction experiment enhanced by acoustic means
Santiago Ortuno-Molina, Rod Milbrandt, Juan C. Castro-Palacio +1
We have created a simple, portable, low-cost setup allowing the students and teachers to experiment with and discuss electromagnetic induction in a safe way, using low currents. Th…
Visualizing beat phenomenon between two amplitude-modulated (AM) light beams on a solar cell using smartphones
Santiago Ortuno-Molina, Francisco M. Munoz-Perez, Juan C. Castro-Palacio +1
We present a new simple experimental setup for demonstrating beat phenomenon. We have combined two amplitude-modulated light beams on a solar cell using two smartphones as signal g…
A diffraction approach to assess the elastic properties of a nylon string
Francisco M. Muñoz-Pérez, Adrián Garmendía-Martínez, Juan C. Castro-Palacio +2
The Youngś modulus of a nylon string has been determined experimentally by combining elasticity theory and wave optics. A diffraction experiment has been setup to determine the cha…
Multi-trap optical tweezers based on Kinoform Silver Mean lenses
Francisco M. Muñoz-Pérez, Adrián Garmendía-Martínez, Vicente Ferrando +3
In this paper, we present the design and implementation of multi-trap optical tweezers based on new quadrifocal kinoform lenses. The phase distribution of these diffractive lenses…
Visualizing acoustic levitation using COMSOL Multiphysics
Francisco M. Muñoz-Pérez, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Marcos H. Giménez +1
We present a new virtual laboratory developed with COMSOL Multiphysics for the simulation of an acoustic levitator. Our computer application simulates the acoustic pressure field a…
RLC series circuit made simple and portable with smartphones
Ives Torriente-García, Arturo C. Martí, Martín Monteiro +3
This article presents a novel method for studying RLC series circuits using two smartphones, one used as a signal generator and the other as an oscilloscope. We measure the voltage…
Experimenting with RC and RL series circuits using smartphones as signal generators and oscilloscopes
Ives Torriente-García, Francisco M. Muñoz-Pérez, Arturo C. Marti +3
Simple, portable and low-cost experiments as RC and RL series circuits are proposed to experiment with DC circuits. Very common elements are used: a few electronics components (res…
Multiplexed vortex beam-based optical tweezers
Francisco M. Muñoz-Pérez, Vicente Ferrando, Walter D. Furlan +3
The design and implementation of a multiplexed spiral phase mask in an experimental optical tweezer setup are presented. This diffractive optical element allows the generation of m…
Hyperbolic space in the Newtonian limit: the cosmological constant
J. C. Castro-Palacio, P. Fernandez de Cordoba, R. Gallego Torrome +1
The cosmological constant and the Boltzmann entropy of a Newtonian Universe filled with a perfect fluid are computed, under the assumption that spatial sections are copies of 3-dim…
Spherical space in the Newtonian limit: The cosmological constant
J. M. Isidro, P. Fernandez de Cordoba, J. C. Castro-Palacio
We compute the cosmological constant of a spherical space in the limit of weak gravity. To this end we use a duality developed by the present authors in a previous work. This duali…
Machinery Failure Approach and Spectral Analysis to study the Reaction Time Dynamics over Consecutive Visual Stimuli
M. E. Iglesias-Martínez, M. Hernaiz-Guijarro, J. C. Castro-Palacio +3
The reaction times of individuals over consecutive visual stimuli have been studied using spectral analysis and a failure machinery approach. The used tools include the fast Fourie…
The cosmological constant of emergent spacetime in the Newtonian approximation
J. C. Castro-Palacio, P. Fernandez de Cordoba, J. M. Isidro
We present a simple quantum-mechanical estimate of the cosmological constant of a Newtonian Universe. We first mimic the dynamics of a Newtonian spacetime by means of a nonrelativi…
Correlations between Background Radiation inside a Multilayer Interleaving Structure, Geomagnetic Activity, and Cosmic Radiation: A Fourth Order Cumulant-based Correlation Analysis
M. E. Iglesias-Martínez, J. C. Castro-Palacio, F. Scholkmann +7
In this work, we analyzed time-series of background radiation inside a multilayer interleaving structure, geomagnetic activity and cosmic-ray activity using the Pearson correlation…
Brain reaction times: Linking individual and collective behaviour through Physics modelling
Juan Carlos Castro-Palacio, Pedro Fernández de Córdoba, J. M. Isidro +1
An individual's reaction time data to visual stimuli have usually been represented in Experimental Psychology by means of an ex-Gaussian function (EGF). In most previous works, res…
Theoretical and experimental study of the normal modes in a coupled two-dimensional system
Marcos H. Giménez, Juan Carlos Castro-Palacio, José Antonio Gómez-Tejedor +2
In this work, the normal modes of a two-dimensional oscillating system have been studied from a theoretical and experimental point of view. The normal frequencies predicted by the…
Visualizing acoustical beats with a smartphones
Marcos H. Giménez, Isabel Salinas, Juan C. Castro-Palacio +2
In this work, a new Physics laboratory experiment on Acoustics beats is presented. We have designed a simple experimental setup to study superposition of sound waves of slightly di…
Direct visualization of mechanical beats by means of an oscillating smartphone
Marcos H. Giménez, Juan C. Castro-Palacio, Juan A. Monsoriu
The resonance phenomenon is widely known from Physics courses. Qualitatively speaking, it takes place in a driven oscillating system whenever the driven frequency approaches the na…
Improving the efficiency of Monte Carlo simulations of systems that undergo temperature-driven phase transitions
L. Velazquez, J. C. Castro-Palacio
Recently, Velazquez and Curilef have proposed a methodology to extend Monte Carlo algorithms based on canonical ensemble, which is aimed to overcome slow sampling problems associat…