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Anno XXIX - n.2 - aprile/giugno 1996 Un problema “reale” per capire la fisica
Tacking a Real World Problem for Understanding Physics. Scientific knowledge is a complex game aimed at constructing a representation of reality characterised by specific questions, languages, ways of operating. Acquiring scientific knowledge therefore involves the ability of thinking and operating within a representation of reality, […]
Anno XXIX - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 1996 Universo come oggetto fisico
Philosophers and scientists of antiquity used to speak of material things or bodies, by taking for granted that world was naturally divided into separate objects. Probably that notion is due to the fact that we are living in a comparatively cold sur-rounding (the surface of the Earth), […]
Anno XXV - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1992 Venti anni di effetto fotoelettrico (1887-1905)
After a concise description of the experimental aspects of the photoelectric effect, this article gives an account of me history of its discovery and of the research that followed, and discusses its contribution to the radical changes in the conceptual framework of physics from the last decade of the past century to Einstein’s work of 1905. […]