Articoli rivista
Anno XXXVIII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2005 L’elettrodinamica dei corpi in movimento e i libri di testo: riflessioni sul significato culturale dell’insegnamento della relatività
Textbooks are the result of the author’s specific scientific, epistemological, educational choices. Original memories can help teachers and students to elicit the roots of the authors’ choices and their peculiarities with respect to other possible choices. The issue is discussed by re-constructing the historical-epistemological roots of the most popular approaches to teaching Special Relativity through a careful analysis of the original papers by Einstein and Minkowski. […]
Anno XXXVIII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2005 L’elettrodinamica dei corpi in movimento in classe: studenti di scuola secondaria a confronto con Fisica, Epistemologia e Storia del pensiero scientifico
The paper reports the main results of an experience in teaching Special Relativity to 17-18 year old students of a Scientific Lyceum. The course stressed in depth understanding of crucial concepts and mastering content knowledge from epistemological and cultural perspectives. The results show that involving students in high cultural challenges is possible and suggest that their dislike of physics might be due not to its intrinsic difficulty but to the perception that the difficulty is not repaid by what it usually offers. […]
Anno XXVIII - n.2 - aprile/giugno 1995 L’elettromagnetismo con l’on-line
This article describes two quantitative experiments about electromagnetic phenomena performed with an appropriate interface board connected to a computer on-line […]
Anno XXIX - n.3 - luglio/settembre 1996 L’emissione di luce della lampadina da bicicletta
A series of three simple experimental activities with bycicle lamps allows a determination of the temperature of the filament, an evaluation of the light emission of the lamp. and an examination of the law for the dependence of the illumination on the distance from the source, […]
Anno XXVII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1994 L’energia che proviene dal sole. (Premio Bonacini: Scuola media statale “F. Di Bartolo” – Buti PI, 1° Premio)
Experimental study on the utilization of solar energy: from photosynthesis to the fabrication of a solar panel. […]
Anno XXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1996 L’entropia tra disordine e ignoranza. Nascita e sviluppo della prospettiva informazionale in fisica
At the turn of the century, a new approach to science gradually emerged. In this “information approach”, science is not a description of world in itself, but a coding of the information scientists have about the world. This approach was born inside statistical mechanics from the effort of giving a microscopic interpretation of entropy. […]
Anno XXXVIII - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 2005 L’equazione di bilancio dell’energia e dell’entropia
In this paper we present a discussion of the first and the second law of thermodynamics based on the balance equation for energy and entropy. In the second part we illustrate some didactical advantages of this approach. […]