Lately the interest in International Olympiads for Physics has been greatly increasing throughout Portugal. As a matter of fact, the Portoguese Physics Society (SPF) signed a document concerning a formal agreement with Portugal central Government for the organization of Regional and National selection tests. […]
Physics examination papers, which were set during the latest (1984) “Concorsi” (i.e. the competitive examinations through which the teachers applying for positions in the Italian State Schools are selected) for teaching “Physics” and “Mathematics and Physics” at secondary school level, are here briefly commented on and a possible solution is sketched for two of the problems. […]
This article describes the contents structure of the journal KVANT and compares it with its American counterpart QUANTUM. […]
In 1998 a book was published in which some physics problems from oral admission examinations at Ecole Normale Sup6rieure in Cachan (France) were collected. These are all problems dealing with physical phenomena of our daily life, used to investigate the ability of candidates in constructing a good model of different physical situations. […]
During the school year 2005/2006, within the National project ?Adopt a School from the Antarctica? and in collaboration with the ENEA research centre ?Laboratori del Brasimone?, two classes of 15 year old pupils had the wonderful opportunity to follow a ?real? […]
Four problems are discussed giving’ a schematic solution and an evaluation. […]