Articoli rivista
Anno XLVI - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2013 Una caccia al tesoro scientifica: dove sta l’accelerometro in uno smartphone?
Current smartphones are equipped with many sensors and that offer a wide choice of applications like measuring accelerations, sounds, distances, angles, etc. Smartphones are becoming increasingly widespread among students who could use them as “personal instruments” for physics measurements. The article describes a kind of scientific treasure hunt: finding the location of the smartphone’s accelerometers by applying the laws of physics of uniform circular motion […]
Anno XXXIX - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2006 Una descrizione fisica del volo
Why airplanes have lift is commonly explained with reference to the Bernoulli principle. This simplistic ‘explanation’ is wrong and cannot account for a number of important features of flying. The physics of flight entails an understanding of Newton’s laws of dynamics and of the viscous properties of air. […]
Anno XXXI - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1998 Una diversa soluzione del problema proposto nell’articolo “Chi ha ragione?” della rubrica “Intermezzo” de “La Fisica nella Scuola”
This article presents another solution of a problem proposed in the review (LFNS, 4,1996). […]
Anno XXIII - n.2 (speciale: L'elaboratore nella didattica della fisica) - aprile/giugno 1990 Una esperienza di valutazione di software didattico
This paper describes a research on the evaluation of educational software that resulted in the production of a guide to evaluating educational software. The guide consists of a methodological part, in which the variables that should be taken into consideration and the criteria for the relative evaluation are discussed, […]
Anno XXV - n.2 - aprile/giugno 1992 Una esperienza didattica con risultato incoraggiante
The high school introductory physics course is a particularly delicate moment. One must avoid giving the pupils the impression that physics is mainly related to text-book and school lab and not to real everyday life. This paper describes an experience in which the students were enabled to take a correct attitude towards physics from the start, […]
Anno XXXI - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1998 Una geometria alternativa per la definizione operativa del vettore induzione magnetica B
The article describes some experiments, with a new geometrical approach, on the relationship between the magnetic force on a conductor, electric current and length. […]