This paper analyses an experimental method by which laws of angular magnification, for common optical instruments, are pointed out. Kepler’s and Galilei’s telescopes simple and compound microscopes are analysed with the aid of a TV camera and a monitor. Image sizes are measured on the monitor before and after instrument magnification; […]
A short history of the measurement of the velocity of light from Galileo to our days. with particular reference to Foucault’s method, which has been used in an experiment for didactic purpose. […]
Using an educational SPM driven by a PC that supports a VNC-server and a motorized webcam we set up an internet controlled RemoteLab SPM. Trained highschool students supervised by their teachers selected the sample to be analyzed, controlled the PC that drove the SPM and performed the measurements and the image analyses in remote mode. […]
Remotely controlled laboratories (RCL) allow a user to connect from place A to a real experiment carried out in place B. These experiments can be carried out without booking and without needing to download special software. Describing the details of an experiment we give an example of the working principle of this technology […]