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Anno LVI - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 2023 Alcune considerazioni sul pendolo di Foucault
In this note we will show how delicate is the experiment of the Foucault Pendulum and how stringent are the constraints to which it must be subject for acceptable behavior. A real medium-size pendulum is used as a model for calculations. […]
Anno LIV – n.3 – luglio/settembre 2021 Come interpretare l’esperimento del disco di Newton?
In 1666 Newton decomposed white light with a prism to make so-called appear rainbow colors. He represented these colors on a disk, which we usually spin to make white appear. But it’s this experience that’s really symmetrical to that of the prism? […]
Anno LVI - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 2023 Forze, inerzia e moto da Aristotele alla didattica dei giorni nostri
In this work, we will examine the historical evolution of the core of dynamics, the relationship between forces and motion, focusing particularly on the principle of inertia. Our aim is to highlight an aspect that seems to us to be largely underestimated in literature, […]
Anno LVI - n.3 - luglio/settembre 2023 Il colore non è solo fisica
In physics teaching there is a widespread idea that to understand colour nothing is needed but the knowledge of the spectral distribution of the radiation reaching eyes. That is not the case. Colour perception is a complex game played by four players: a light source, […]
Anno LVI - n.4 - ottobre/dicembre 2023 Ma quanto è quantico il tris quantistico? (A proposito di ludo-pedagogia quantistica)
There are numerous proposals for video games that, in the intentions of the proponents, would facilitate the acquisition of the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics by students (of all school orders) and the general public. In this note we consider Quantum TicTacToe, […]
Anno LIV – n.3 – luglio/settembre 2021 Scienza e tecnica del colore: dai trattati sulla pittura del Rinascimento ai moderni standard internazionali
In ancient times, the interest in colour and related techniques involved almost exclusively artists, decorators, fabric dyers, professionals who needed clear recipes to obtain the desired effects in their works, or philosophers and thinkers, because of the symbolic and religious meanings of colours. […]