XLIV National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy

Session

Dialogue Between History, Teaching and Dissemination in Physics and Astronomy

19 Sept 2024, 14:00

Firenze

Conveners

Dialogue Between History, Teaching and Dissemination in Physics and Astronomy

• Enrico Giannetto (Università di Bergamo)

31. Photon or light quantum?

Longo, Francesco

19/09/2024, 14:00

SISFA 2024

In Physics teaching practice, terms and concepts are sometimes used without highlighting the historical and epistemological process that generated them and choosing them to identify and explain a particular phenomenon. This also happens with electromagnetic radiation. To support students in understanding it, we tried to adopt a cultural-historical approach that shapes the epistemological...

48. The Lorentz force and transformations: an example of how the history of physics can simplify teaching

Battocchio, Andrea (Liceo Statale "Primo Levi" di San Donato Milanese)

19/09/2024, 14:20

SISFA 2024

The Lorentz force, which is the force acting on a moving charge within an electromagnetic field, is generally introduced in secondary school textbooks as an experimental result: its origin is not deeply described since demonstrating it would require a good grasp of differential calculus. However, the dependence of the Lorentz force on the charge's velocity - and therefore on a specific...

7. From Faraday’s candle to today’s STEM: some suggestions for teachers

Cerreta, Pietro (Associazione ScienzaViva, Calitri)

19/09/2024, 14:40

SISFA 2024

According to Faraday, there was nothing more instructive than a burning candle for the juvenile audience of his time. This topic can still be educational for our pupils if we actualize some of its phenomena. First, let us expose the flame of a candle to the rays of the sun, or put it in front of the light of a video projector: we will show that on a screen made of a white sheet of paper not...

11. Cultural Understanding of Physics: Quantum Mechanics a Century Later

Giliberti, Marco (Università degli studi di Milano)

19/09/2024, 15:00

SISFA 2024

In a world where the second quantum revolution drives the study of physics orienting much research toward technological developments, physics courses often focus more on the applied aspects of Quantum Mechanics than on the epistemological ones. This technological shift of goals is quite widespread, and certainly not limited to Quantum Mechanics alone. Indeed, academic proposals to transform...

5. Birth and Death of Demonstration Experiment

Ganci, Salvatore (none)

SISFA 2024

This communication deals with a short history of the so called Demonstration Experiment in Physics and its role in teaching. Open to a debate on its pedagogical value.