A teaching proposal using paper helicopters: simple experiments with on line equipment allow to study the motion of these amusing objects. […]
Introducing the physics of wind turbines in a vocational school: from prior knowledge through experimental work to educational results. […]
The law that expresses the energy stored in a charged capacitor is obtained by an elementary algebraic calculation related to a simple discrete mechanical model. This model can be used in education, in a secondary school, as an alternative to continuous models that use integral calculus. […]
After the second world war, the birth of cybernetics and information theory gave rise to new conceptual tools for exploring the meaning of entropy and understanding its relation with information. The key scientist who exploited in a systematic way the relation between entropy and information was Léon Brillouin. […]