Month: October 2023

Despite its pretty vulgar use as the place where food for the family is prepared, kitchen as you know is a very nice place to do physics experiments. In this periodic letter, I already described the physics of coffee making, the phase

Last week it was the “Nobels’ week”. As every first week in October since 123 years, three to nine startled scientists pick up the phone and listen to a voice announcing they have been awarded a Nobel prize in chemistry,

Factorized equations are a way to express in a simple, usually linearized fashion, the empirical dependence of a phenomenon on a number of variables. Maybe the most famous one is Fermi’s “four-factors” formula, to express the neutron criticality of a