Articoli rivista
Premio Bonacini
Anno XXVII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1994 Lenti e specchi. (Premio Bonacini: Scuola media statale di Cherasco CN, 2° Premio)
The work describes a series of simple experiments done by thirteen year old students It included the construction of a kaleidoscope and other experiments on geometrical optics. […]
Anno XXIV - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 1991 Specchi e simmetrie
Bonacini Prize first prize entry. Simple experiments on multiple reflection allowed the pupils of a middle-school class to find the relationship between the number of images and the angle between two upright plane mirrors. The project finished with the construction of a caleidoscope. […]
Anno XXVI - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 1993 Trasformazioni dell’energia solare
Bonacini Prize entry, 1991-92. The article briefly describes the experiments on solar energy done by 12 year old students, and their subsequent classroom discussion. […]
Anno XXIV - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1991 Trasformazioni energetiche nella catapulta romana (Scuola media statale “F. B. Busoni”, Empoli FI)
This article describes an entry to the Bonacini Annual Contest for experimental work in the school. The pupils built a model of an ancient roman catapult and measured its elastic constant and the projectile’s initial velocity. At the end the efficiency of the energy transfer was evaluated from the energy balance of the machine. […]