Articoli rivista
Anno XXXVIII - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 2005 Un’intervista a Einstein
Two weeks before Einstein died he was visited by a historian of science. They sat in Einstein’s study and discussed some of his illustrious predecessors in the evolution of physics. […]
Anno XXVI - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1993 Un itinerario didattico introduttivo all’insegnamento dell’ottica
We present a recently developed project for teaching optics to 14-15 year old students. Pointing out some shortcomings of the traditional approaches, we take into account the students’ common sense “preconceptions” investigated in various inquiries. The teaching pattern we propose is rooted in everyday experience and the aim is to answer immediately questions such as: “how can we see what we see?”. […]
Anno XLII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2009 Un laboratorio all’aperto
The article suggests an easily reproducible statistical procedure for searching natural phenomena for regularities. […]
Anno XXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1996 Un laboratorio di meteorologia nella scuola media dell’obbligo
The article is pertinent to a pluridisciplinary experience concerning the different meanings of the Italian word “tempo” which exact translation would be either “time” or “weather”. The experience has been conducted within a triennial program in the first class of a secondary school. […]
Anno XXXV - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2002 Un meraviglioso paradosso elettromagnetico
A 40 W bulb lamp lights up although a thick copper is shorting its terminals. This paradoxical situation may help to stimulate curiosity and induce a critical attitude towards the parameters that must be taken in account when analysing electrical phenomena. […]
Anno XXXIV - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2001 Un metodo dinamico per la determinazione della costante dielettrica di un liquido
In order to find the dielectric constant of an insulating fluid the authors measured the resonance frequency of a parallel plate capacitor that had the fluid as dielectric. The results show that the method is suitable but some improvements are needed to increase the experimental sensitivity. […]
Anno XLVII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2014 Un metodo per misurare la velocità del suono 2
A simple experiment for measuring the velocity of sound in air using two hollow metal cylinders, a microphone and a digital oscilloscope is described. Knowing the distance between microphone and cylinders the velocity of sound is easily computed by measuring the time interval between banging them together and the microphone’s reception of the sound. […]