Questo articolo presenta alcune delle più importanti caratteristiche dei corsi scientifici nell’insegnamento secondario dei sistemi educativi di cinque paesi europei: Germania, Belgio, Spagna (e Catalogna), Francia, Italia. Vi sono descritti aspetti differenti di questi corsi: le discipline proposte, gli orari settimanali, […]
The article describes the aims of the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies and gives a few examples of the courses offered by its Institute of Physics. Information about the main research projects carried out by the academic staff and by the school in the implementation of new curricula in secondary school are finally given. […]
This article on vision discusses the structure of the human eye, its resolving power, its coordination with the brain, peripheral vision and other details of how we detect moving and still objects. […]
This article celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana, probably the brightest Italian theoretician of the XX century. We outline the significance of some of his publications and we recall his life through letters, […]