Congresso del Dipartimento di Fisica
Highlights in Physics 2005
11–14 October 2005, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano
Quanta-Mi and related researches in Modern Physics Educatio
N.
*
Bergomi ,
L.
*
Cazzaniga ,
M.
†
Giliberti
and G.
†
Vegni
* SILSIS-MI
† Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano
It’s about 20 years that many international research groups, including the Milan group, have been studying the
teaching/learnig modalities of Modern Physics.
The analysis we made in Milan of the main obtained results give some clear indications for constructing an effective teaching
of quantum physics for secondary school students:
•Start from well stated and clear phenomenological aspects
•Follow a coherent formulation of quantum physics and get even to formal aspects
•Avoid semiclassical way of reasoning
EXPERIMENTATIONS
SOFTWARE PRODUCTION:
•The Compton effect
S.I.L.S.I.S.-MI
•The decay of the muon
•Ionizing radiation
6 YEARS OF
•The Rutherfor scattering
•18-hours training course
“QUANTUM THEORIES”
SCATTERING
DI
RUTHERFORD
NIDIA
BERGOMI
MARCO
GILIBERTI
•24-hours related
THE MILAN APPROACH TO QUANTUM TEACHING
UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI
MILANO DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA
Quanta-Mi:
LABORATORY COURSE ON QUANTUM
PHYSICS EDUCATION
•24 hours
Guide-lines
•COMPUTER METHODS IN PHYSICS
1. don’t create a gap constructing Modern Physics against
Classical Physics.
2. build a general coherent picture of Quantum Physics,
“consistent” with Classical Physics.
“In the framework of the CERN
Education Award competition, Luigia
Cazzaniga took her pupils to a
laboratory run by Milan University's
physics department. There they
took part in their first particle
physics experiment to study the
tracks left by alpha particles in a
cloud chamber. A total of three
scientists, six secondary school
teachers and seven classes were
involved in the project, which was
the
WINNER OF THE CERN EDUCATION
AWARD 2003”
3. Quantum Physics is not equivalent to Quantum Mechanics and
its ontology. The most complete Quantum Theory that we have
now is the Quantum Fields Theory so start from it
4. have in mind the whole last century and not only its first 30
years.
Quanta-Mi: The Approach
Analogy of behavior
of free propagating
light and matter
pencils in similar
circumstances (no
self-interaction)
Birth of the
quantum concept
CONTINUOS FORCE FIELDS
E. M.
OPTICS
WAVE
PACKETS
E. M. WAVE EQ.
E. M. INTERACTION AND E. M.
QUANTA
MATTER OPTICS
MATTER WAVE EQ.
CHEMICAL INTERACTION AND
MATTER QUANTA
Structure of the
atom
STATISTICAL INTEPRETATION
PARTICLES AS QUANTA OF
FIELDS
HEISENBERG’S RELATIONS
STATIONARY STATES
SPECTRA
FRANCK-HERTZ
RUTHERFORD
SCIENTIFIC HIGH SCHOOL OF
DESIO:
200 students. 10 hours of lesson.
DOUBLE SLIT
Quantum fields
HIGH SCHOOL CASE STUDIES
MATTER AS A
CONTINUUM
ENERGY LEVELS
SCIENTIFIC HIGH SCHOOL
“CASIRAGHI”:
25 students. 30 hours of lesson.
GROUND STATE OF THE HYDROGEN ATOM
ATOMIC STRUCTURE
http://pctidifi.mi.infn.it/secif/quantami/
COLLABORATION WITH MNST
(National Museum of Science and Technology)
for Particle Physics apparatuses exibitions
RECENT NATIONAL COLLABORATION
(APPROVED PRIN PROJECTS) WITH THE UNIVERSITIES OF
BOLOGNA, MILANO BICOCCA, NAPOLI, PALERMO, PAVIA, ROMA, TORINO,
TRENTO, UDINE
1999-2001 SECIF (Teaching and Understanding in Physics)
2001-2003 FFC
(Physics for Cultural Formation)
2004-2006 Fis 21 (Physics for the 21st century)
PRECAMPUS
A collaboration between
secondary school and
university for what concerns
contents and methods of
mathematics and physics
In collaboration with the
University of Insubria
Fundeb By European
Community
COLLEGIO DELLA GUASTALLA:
20 students. 20 hours.
376 STUDENTS COMING
FROM 7 DIFFERENT
INSTITUTES TOOK PART
IN IT
Scientific
17%
1%
"Liceo"
32%
School for
"Accoutancy"
Technological
Liceo"
School for
Lnguage
30%
8%
12%
Business and
Building
Classic "Liceo"