Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
FIS/08 (DIDACTICS AND HISTORY OF PHYSICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS "FELICE CASORATI"
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2020 - 20/01/2021)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Prerequisites
The course contextually presents the prerequisite notions necessary to understand the proposed contents.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and deeper understanding of fundamental episodes in the history of physics; use of the conceptual and experimental evolution of the discipline as a methodology to clarify notions and contents which are now accepted and transmitted in the education of students.
The course strives to provide a high quality instruction also to the benefit of students and teachers and complies therefore with the goals of the ONU 2030 agenda.
Teaching methods
Lectures with incentive to participate during the exposition and critical discussion at the beginning of the following lecture before addressing new subjects.
Reccomended or required readings
Digital slides of the various lectures.
Roberto Maiocchi, Storia della scienza in Occidente, La Nuova Italia, 2000, selected parts.
Storia della scienza, Enciclopedia Treccani, 2001-2003, selected articles.
Students who cannot attend lectures are requested to get in touch via email with the teacher before the course starts to get the study materials and suggestions about how to use them best.
Assessment methods
Oral examination verifying the assimilation of the specific course contents in the wider perspective of an historical epistemology which strives to reconstruct the original conceptual and scientific contexts.
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030
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