8 articles in this issue
Leopoldo R. Gómez, Nicolás A. García, Richard A. Register, Daniel A. Vega
The order-disorder transition of a sphere-forming block copolymer thin film was numerically studied through a Cahn-Hilliard model. Simulations show that the fundamental mechanisms of pattern formation are spinodal decomposition and nucleation and growth. ... see more
Germán César Dima, M. A. Goldin, Gabriel B. Mindlin
The nature of the neural mechanisms in the birdsong motor pathway that lead to the generation of respiratory patterns are a matter of extensive debate. In a top-down control paradigm, vocal gestures emerge from a unique timescale ruled by the telencephali... see more
Yisi S Zhang
A Commentary on the paper by G. C. Dima et al. [Pap. Phys. 10, 100002 (2018)].Received: 8 January 2018, Accepted: 11 January 2018; Edited by: A. Martí; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4279/PIP.100003Cite as: Y S Zhang, Papers in Physics 10... see more
César Llamas Bello, Jesús Vegas, Miguel Ángel González Rebollo, Manuel Ángel González Delgado
An open-source platform to be used in high school or university laboratories has been developed. The platform permits the performance of dynamics experiments in a simple and affordable way, combining measurements of different sensors in ... see more
Manuel Ángel González Delgado, Alfonso Gómez, Miguel Ángel González Rebollo
In this paper we describe a classical experiment with an air track in which smartphones are used as experimental devices to obtain physical data. The proposed experiment allows users to easily observe and measure relationships between physical magnitudes,... see more
Kyle Forinash, Raymond Wisman
The audio port of a smartphone is designed to send and receive audio but can be harnessed for portable, economical, and accurate data collection from a variety of sources. While smartphones have internal sensors to measure a number of physical phenomena s... see more
A. Hilberer, G. Laurent, A. Lorin, A. Partier, J. Bobroff, F. Bouquet, C. Even, J. M. Fischbach, Claire Akiko Marrache-Kikuchi, M. Monteverde, B. Pilett, Q. Quay
The current performances of single-board microcontrollers render them attractive, not only for basic applications, but also for more elaborate projects, amongst which are physics teaching or research. In this article, we show how temperature-dependent tra... see more
Cyril Dauphin, Frédéric Bouquet
We have conducted a compound pendulum experiment using Arduino and an associated two-axis accelerometer sensor as measuring device. We have shown that the use of an accelerometer to measure both radial and orbital accelerations of the pendulum at differen... see more