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Anno XXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1996 L’entropia tra disordine e ignoranza. Nascita e sviluppo della prospettiva informazionale in fisica
At the turn of the century, a new approach to science gradually emerged. In this “information approach”, science is not a description of world in itself, but a coding of the information scientists have about the world. This approach was born inside statistical mechanics from the effort of giving a microscopic interpretation of entropy. […]
Anno XXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1996 Cicerone e la cosmologia platonica
“Somnium Scipionis”, the final fragment of Cicero’s “Republica”, written in a poetic and cultured style, summarises the most essential ideas of Platonic cosmology. It hands down to posterity, also through its interpreters, Macrobius in particular, the design of a universe governed by mathematical principles. […]
Anno XXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1996 La torre di Babele
We received a very interesting document from historic point of view, that, if authentic, would witness for an extraordinary development of ancient Babylonian physics, never before supposed by historians of science. “Fisica nella scuola” does not take any position about document’s authenticity and only publishes its translation, […]
Anno XXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1996 Requisiti standard di conoscenza in fisica all’uscita dalle scuole secondarie nella Repubblica Ceca
In the changing Czech educational system, educational standards were elaborated for school leavers at the end of secondary education. This article reports about the preparation and goals of the educational standards in physics. […]
Anno XXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1996 Un laboratorio di meteorologia nella scuola media dell’obbligo
The article is pertinent to a pluridisciplinary experience concerning the different meanings of the Italian word “tempo” which exact translation would be either “time” or “weather”. The experience has been conducted within a triennial program in the first class of a secondary school. […]
Anno XXIX - n.1 - gennaio/marzo 1996 Ottica non lineare-ottica bistabile
We think it worthwhile to publish this examination for various reasons. Besides comparing content and difficulty degree of our national tests with those of other EEC countries, one can also deduce informations about different teaching strategies. Once more the test evidences the importance given, […]