Articoli rivista
Anno XXXI - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 1998 Blu del cielo e realtà degli atomi
After having worked on the evolution of the theories regarding why the sky is blue, a series of experiments is presented in order to make the phenomenon of light scattering easily understandable to students and to provide a possible teaching sequence on the topic. […]
Anno LIV – n.4 – ottobre/dicembre 2021 Breve storia dell’italo-americano, Rocco Anthony Petrone, che guidò l’uomo alla conquista della Luna
This brief memoir recalls Rocco Petrone, an ante litteram “brain drain” from Lucania to the United States, then an American citizen, who played a fundamental role in completing, fifty years ago, the mission of man’s first landing on the Moon. […]
Anno XLI - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 2008 Bruno Touschek: pensare fisica in grande
A homage to Bruno Touschek, to his personal conception of physics as a creative enterprise and to his most important contribution: ADA, the small ingenious prototype of the great colliders of today. […]
Anno XXXVI - n.3 - luglio/settembre 2003 C’è del gas all’interno di una lampadina?
Students at their last year in high-school measure the temperature in different points of a lighted incandescent lamp bulb oriented in different directions and always find the highest temperature at the top. When asked why, their answers reveal interesting patterns of reasoning: heat goes up (without further explanation); […]