Articoli rivista
Anno XLVII - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2014 Le idee a fondamento della teoria della relatività
While learning Relativity in high school requires the pupils to think in ways that are not supported by their common reasoning, the teachers usually think that its understanding requires removing everyday experience. The paper describes a discussion in wich the author, […]
Anno XL - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2007 Le idee intuitive dei bambini sul campo gravitazionale
The intuitive ideas about the gravitational field of 5 to 9 year-old children were explored in an informal science context with the aim to connect common experience and scientific knowledge through spontaneous thinking. Oral questioning based on a written questionnaire, discussion, […]
Anno XXXII - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1999 Le influenze lunari e la nascita dei bambini
The widespread idea that the moon affects the number of births at full moon. fewer births at new moon – is not supported by any fact. A survey on births at the cities of Padua and Venice during the year 1996 shows no correlation whatsoever between moon phases and birth rates. […]
Anno XXXVII - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 2004 Le Nane Bianche, ovvero una “favola moderna”
As an appropriate conclusion of the physics course, a scheme is suggested for one or more lessons on white dwarfs, including some history and some theory. […]
Anno XXVI - n.2 - aprile/giugno 1993 Le Olimpiadi di Fisica in Francia, un concorso per risvegliare l’interesse per la fisica
This article describes the goals, motivations and organization of the French National Physics Olympiads that began in the school year 1991-1992 and reports the Statutes of the competition. […]
Anno XXXVII - n.3 - luglio/settembre 2004 Le orbite ellittiche e il Cabri Géomètre
The software Cabri Géomètre and a geometrical method essentially due to Richard Feynman are used to developa didactical approach towards Kepler’s first law (the law of elliptical orbits), starting from Newton’s gravitational law 1/R2. […]
Anno XL - n.2 - aprile/giugno 2007 Le oscillazioni di un sistema massa-molla, seconda puntata
Two small magnets applied to a simple spring-mass system offer remarkable insight into non-linear oscillation phenomena. We observed amplitude jumps and hysteresis in forced oscillations but not the transition to chaotic motions because the system, after a more or less complicated transitory, […]