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Anno LVI - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2023 Teoria della misura: nodi concettuali e proposte didattiche
Recent research about the professional development needs as perceived by Italian physics teachers showed that measurement theory ranked last in a list of 17 physics topics. This result may be due to the fact that measurement theory is often taught just at the very beginning of physics courses in high school, […]
Anno LIV – n.4 – ottobre/dicembre 2021 Termometro assoluto con diodi
An electronic linear PTAT (Proportional To Absolute Temperature) thermometer for didactical purposes is discussed and suggested as a laboratory instrument. Building this device helps students go deep into semiconductor physics. […]
Anno XXX - n.2 - aprile/giugno 1997 Trasformazione termodinamica isoterma on-line: un’occasione per discutere la realizzazione e la taratura di un trasduttore di volume
This paper presents a simple educational on-line experiment about gas (air) transformation. This experiment was performed using an intelligent serial interface (ULI) and a volume transducer designed for this purpose. The paper is divided into two parts: the first explains the design and the calibration of the volume transducer, […]
Anno XXVII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1994 Un elettroscopio Nuffield a microbilancia come un’alternativa all’elettroscopio a foglie d’oro nell’insegnamento dell’elettrostatica. (Traduzione da School Science Review, vol. 71, n. 257, Giugno 1990, a cura di Matilde Cilento)
A new approach to the teaching of electrostatics is described which avoids the well-known conceptual difficulties of the gold leaf electroscope. Simple equipment is used which the pupils can make for themselves for a few pence in a few minutes; and the experiments are both spectacular and fun. […]
Anno XXVII - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1994 Un esempio di utilizzo di una piccola stazione meteorologica
A simple meteorological station, connected on-line to a personal computer, has been used at the same time by teachers in physics and science, with students of high level school, in a scientific Liceum. Within the physics course, student made some hardware/software test of the automatic acquisition system; […]
Anno XXVIII - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1995 Un’esperienza con differenze di potenziale variabili nel tempo
After introducing the concept of electric potential difference to students in the last year of secondary school, an experiment using a variable frequency generator, an oscilloscope and a loudspeaker allowed them to “see” and “hear” variable potential differences. The experiment was the starting point for an empirical introduction to decomposing electrical signals into sinusoidal components. […]
Anno XLIX - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 2016 Un’esperienza di Alternanza Scuola Lavoro
The article is about a recent innovative experience of ‘work-related learning’ which took place in the school year 2015-2016 and involved a third class of Liceo Cecioni, a high school with a scientific specialization. The whole class was involved simultaneously. Our students were equipped with a professional accelerometer VectorNav VN-100: starting from the time series containing the three-axis accelerometer measurements they had to reconstruct, […]
Anno LI - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2018 Un esperimento “classico” rivisitato: la misura di h con i LED
A variation of the “classical” experiment for the measurement of Planck’s constant h using LEDs was proposed at the 2018 AI F Summer school of L’Aquila. This variation, in which the discharge of a capacitor provides the needed variable voltage and the measurements are made with an Arduino board, […]
Anno XXVIII - n.2 - aprile/giugno 1995 Un esperimento per determinare l’andamento del rapporto Q/V per un conduttore qualsiasi
This article describes a simple method to experiment the relation Q/V=const, by means of the direct measurement of Q and V. The necessary equipment can be easily found in any physics laboratory, as it is basically made of a 0-600V dc generator, […]
Anno XLVI - n.3 - luglio/settembre 2013 Un esperimento per introdurre il caos deterministico nei licei
In this work it is shown how it is possible to build a simple device: the dripping faucet. This physical system exhibits an extremely interesting dynamic behaviour, useful to introduce the subject of deterministic chaos in high schools […]