This article presents a brief treatise of history, methodology and contents of PSSC course, with a specific attention to some laboratory activities. Is PSSC course still current today? […]
Attenzione: il nome dell’autore è Kennedy, non Kennedi […]
A review of international contributions to the debate on the prospects for the teaching and learning of science and physics in schools, with special regard to the aspects on the forefront of the debate on school reform in Italy today. […]
Although Julius Mayer was one of the first scientists to propose the conservation of energy he is usually ignored in physics curricula. He should be especially remembered as the first person to understand energy transformations in living systems. […]
This article mainly illustrates the rediscovery of a rare phonautograph builted by Rudolph Koenig, one of the best makers of scientific instruments of the nineteenth century, at the Liceo Classico “Pilo Albertelli” in Rome. There are also references to the person of Koenig, […]
An experiment on electromagnetic braking with Real Time Laboratory, using a motion detector and a force sensor, allows measurements of the force acting on a magnet falling inside a metal tube and its velocity versus time, giving opportunities for modelling transient phenomena. […]