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Carlos Eduardo Aguiar

Publications and source records attributed to Carlos Eduardo Aguiar.

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arXiv2022

Galileo's speedometer: an approach to the concept of instantaneous velocity

Difficulties presented by students on the concept of instantaneous velocity are well known. This is in part due to instantaneous speed being often defined in terms of the notion of mathematical limit, which may not be clear to many students in introductory physics courses. In this work we present a complementary teaching proposal that can help students to get a better grasp of instantaneous velocity. The approach is based on Galileo's ideas on instantaneous speed, which he borrowed from the Mertonian scholars much before infinitesimal calculus was developed.

physics.ed-ph↗

arXiv2022

The sound of the udu

The udu is a traditional Nigerian percussion instrument that can be thought of as a Helmholtz resonator with two apertures. We use a simple two-particle mechanical analogue to study the behaviour of such a resonator and find that the model describes quite well the main features of udu acoustics.

physics.class-ph↗

arXiv2009

Using the Sound Card as a Timer

Experiments in mechanics can often be timed by the sounds they produce. In such cases, digital audio recordings provide a simple way of measuring time intervals with an accuracy comparable to that of photogate timers. We illustrate this with an experiment in the physics of sports: to measure the speed of a hard-kicked soccer ball.

physics.pop-ph↗

arXiv2009

Google Earth Physics

Google Earth photographs often show ships and their wakes in great detail. We discuss how the images can be used to calculate the velocity of these ships.

physics.pop-ph↗

arXiv2007

NeXSPheRIO Results on Elliptic-Flow Fluctuations at RHIC

By using the NexSPheRIO code, we study the elliptic-flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at 200A GeV. It is shown that, by fixing the parameters of the model to correctly reproduce the charged pseudo-rapidity and the transverse-momentum distributions, reasonable agreement of with data is obtained, both as function of pseudo-rapidity as well as of transverse momentum, for charged particles. Our results on elliptic-flow fluctuations are in good agreement with the recently measured data in experiments.

hep-ph↗