Articoli rivista
Anno XXXII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1999 La fisica dei fumetti
In this paper three examples are reported about the presence of physics in comics: a proposal to increase youth’s interest towards scientific subjects. […]
Anno XXXV - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2002 La fisica del ballo
Dancing is a pleasant and healthy activity. Its analysis from the point of view of physics allows to uncover the roles played by forces, centre of mass, moment of inertia, angular momentum, etc… […]
Anno XXXIX - n.3 - luglio/settembre 2006 La fisica del buco
The true and genuine holes, in physics as well, go rather unnoticed owing to their absence of matter except when their presence entails functional problems. In the following, starting from simple problems and looking at the hole rather than at its surroundings, […]
Anno XXXVI - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 2003 La fisica delle radiazioni e le sue applicazioni alla terapia medica
Radiation therapy is an example of the successful application of advanced physics to the treatment of human disease leading to improved quality of life and even cure for many patients. The German physicist William Roentgen (1845-1923), who discovered x-rays in 1895 and pioneered early x-ray applications, […]
Anno XXXVII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2004 La fisica ingenua resiste
Examples derived from a physics teacher’s experience are offered, that confirm previous well documented knowledge about the persistence of ‘common sense’ representations of physical phenomena in students. The needs to modify the approach to teaching physics and to revise its sense and aims are then discussed. […]