Riferimenti bibliografici

Opere consultate per il sito (storia della fisica, didattica, fonti scientifiche). Le citazioni negli atomi rimandano qui nella forma (Cognome Anno).

• B. P. Abbott, et al. — Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. Physical Review Letters (2016). Collaborazione LIGO Scientific e Virgo. Primo segnale di onda gravitazionale GW150914.
• Arnold B. Arons — Teaching Introductory Physics. Wiley (1997). Classico della didattica della fisica: discussioni concettuali, misconcezioni ricorrenti, strategie di insegnamento.
• Peter Atkins — The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2010). Sintesi sui principi della termodinamica, citata per il commento sull’entropia e la traduzione fra calore e lavoro.
• Giovanni Battimelli, Rita Stilli — Le vie della fisica. Per il triennio (3 voll.). Laterza Edizioni Scolastiche (1999). Manuale per il triennio del liceo, sviluppato nell’ambito del gruppo Ro.Ter. (Universita La Sapienza'', Roma, coord.\ C. Bernardini); consultato per lo stile espositivo, l'impostazione didattica costruttivista e l'attenzione alle vie” molteplici per attraversare la fisica.
• Louis A. Bloomfield — How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life. Wiley (2016). Spunti per esempi di vita quotidiana: cottura a induzione, vetri isolanti, effetto serra, freni a corrente di Foucault.
• Jean-Claude Boudenot — Une petite histoire de la physique. Vuibert (2005). In lingua francese.
• Siegmund Brandt — The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes. Oxford University Press (2009).
• Jed Z. Buchwald, Robert Fox (a cura di) — The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics. Oxford University Press (2014).
• Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration — First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2019).
• Edward Dolnick — The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World. Harper Perennial (2011).
• Stillman Drake — Galileo: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2001).
• Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld — L’evoluzione della fisica. Bollati Boringhieri (1965). Edizione italiana di The Evolution of Physics, 1938.
• Lewis Carroll Epstein — Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality. Insight Press (2002). Raccolta di quesiti qualitativi a scelta multipla e spiegazioni discorsive. Fonte di ispirazione per gli esercizi concettuali.
• Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands — The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Addison-Wesley (1963). Le celebri lezioni di Feynman al Caltech. Fonte di analogie, esempi, e riflessioni epistemologiche.
• A. P. French — Newtonian Mechanics. W. W. Norton & Company (1971). Spunti per la trattazione del pendolo semplice e dell’oscillatore armonico, in particolare per l’approssimazione di piccole oscillazioni.
• George Gamow — Trent’anni che sconvolsero la fisica: la storia della teoria dei quanti. Zanichelli (1968). Edizione italiana di Thirty Years that Shook Physics, 1966.
• Michael Guillen — Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. Hyperion (1995).
• David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker — Fundamentals of Physics. Wiley (2014). Manuale universitario di riferimento; consultato per la struttura standard dei capitoli di induzione, termologia e meccanica dei fluidi.
• Max Jammer — Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy. Princeton University Press (2000).
• Max Jammer — Concepts of Force: A Study in the Foundations of Dynamics. Harvard University Press / Harper Torchbooks (1957). Ristampato nel 1962 e poi da Dover Publications.
• Arthur Koestler — The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe. Hutchinson (1959).
• Manjit Kumar — Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality. Icon Books (2010).
• Eric Lauga — Fluid Mechanics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2022). Introduzione divulgativa alla meccanica dei fluidi; consultato per il taglio storico-concettuale di Stevino e Pascal.
• Eric Mazur — Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual. Prentice Hall (1997). Metodologia dell’istruzione tra pari in fisica; base delle domande ConcepTest.
• Paolo Mazzoldi, Massimo Nigro, Cesare Voci — Fisica. Vol. II: Elettromagnetismo e onde. EdiSES (2008). Manuale universitario italiano; consultato per la presentazione della legge di Lenz e delle correnti di Foucault.
• Domenico Bertoloni Meli — Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Johns Hopkins University Press (2006).
• Isaac Newton — Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Joseph Streater, Londra (1687). Edizione consultata: ristampa moderna a cura di I. Bernard Cohen e Anne Whitman, University of California Press, 1999.
• Thomas L. O’Kuma, David P. Maloney, Curtis J. Hieggelke — Ranking Task Exercises in Physics: Student Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall (2004). Raccolta di esercizi in cui lo studente ordina situazioni fisiche secondo un criterio dato. Fonte di ispirazione per gli esercizi di ranking presenti nel volume.
• H. J. Pain — The Physics of Vibrations and Waves. John Wiley & Sons (2005). Testo MIT classico sulle oscillazioni. Consultato per la trattazione di smorzamento, risonanza e analogie meccanica-elettromagnetiche.
• R. V. Pound, G. A. Rebka, Jr. — Apparent Weight of Photons. Physical Review Letters (1960).
• Thomas Povey — Professor Povey’s Perplexing Problems: Pre-University Physics and Maths Puzzles with Solutions. Oneworld Publications (2015). Raccolta di problemi non standard di fisica e matematica preuniversitaria, con soluzioni discorsive. Fonte di ispirazione per esercizi di ragionamento fisico.
• Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon & Schuster (1986).
• John S. Rigden — From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries. Dover Publications (2002). Originariamente pubblicato da W. H. Freeman, 1984.
• Carlo Rovelli — Sette brevi lezioni di fisica. Adelphi (2014).
• Karl Schwarzschild — Uber das Gravitationsfeld eines Massenpunktes nach der Einsteinschen Theorie. Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1916). Memoria originale della soluzione di Schwarzschild.
• Károly Simonyi — A Cultural History of Physics. CRC Press (2012). Traduzione dall’ungherese. Copre la storia della fisica dall’antichità al XX secolo.
• Russell Stannard — Relativity: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2008). Introduzione qualitativa alla relativita generale: principio di equivalenza, dilatazione gravitazionale del tempo, buchi neri.
• Guido Tonelli — La nascita imperfetta delle cose. Rizzoli (2016).
• Giancarlo Tonzig — La fisica del buon Dio. Aracne (2021). Testo italiano di problem solving di fisica. Consultato per l’impostazione di problemi di ragionamento.
• James S. Walker — Il Walker. Corso di fisica. Linx (Pearson) (2013). Edizione italiana del manuale di Walker per il liceo. Consultato per la struttura espositiva di calorimetria, oscillazioni e strumenti ottici.

Collegamenti

Works consulted for this site (history of physics, physics education, scientific sources). Citations inside the atoms point here in the form (Surname Year).

• B. P. Abbott, et al. — Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. Physical Review Letters (2016). LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration. The first gravitational-wave signal, GW150914.
• Arnold B. Arons — Teaching Introductory Physics. Wiley (1997). A classic of physics education: conceptual discussions, recurring misconceptions, teaching strategies.
• Peter Atkins — The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2010). A concise account of the laws of thermodynamics, cited for the remarks on entropy and on the exchange rate between heat and work.
• Giovanni Battimelli, Rita Stilli — Le vie della fisica. Per il triennio (3 vols.). Laterza Edizioni Scolastiche (1999). An Italian upper-secondary textbook developed within the Ro.Ter. group (Sapienza University of Rome, coordinated by C. Bernardini); consulted for its expository style, its constructivist approach to teaching and its attention to the many possible “routes” through physics.
• Louis A. Bloomfield — How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life. Wiley (2016). A source of everyday examples: induction hobs, insulating glazing, the greenhouse effect, eddy-current brakes.
• Jean-Claude Boudenot — Une petite histoire de la physique. Vuibert (2005). In French.
• Siegmund Brandt — The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes. Oxford University Press (2009).
• Jed Z. Buchwald, Robert Fox (eds.) — The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics. Oxford University Press (2014).
• Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration — First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2019).
• Edward Dolnick — The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World. Harper Perennial (2011).
• Stillman Drake — Galileo: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2001).
• Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld — The Evolution of Physics. Cambridge University Press (1938). Consulted in the Italian edition, L’evoluzione della fisica, Bollati Boringhieri (1965).
• Lewis Carroll Epstein — Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality. Insight Press (2002). A collection of qualitative multiple-choice questions with discursive explanations. A source of inspiration for the conceptual exercises.
• Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands — The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Addison-Wesley (1963). Feynman’s celebrated Caltech lectures. A source of analogies, examples and epistemological reflections.
• A. P. French — Newtonian Mechanics. W. W. Norton & Company (1971). Consulted for the treatment of the simple pendulum and of the harmonic oscillator, in particular for the small-oscillation approximation.
• George Gamow — Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory. Doubleday (1966). Consulted in the Italian edition, Trent’anni che sconvolsero la fisica, Zanichelli (1968).
• Michael Guillen — Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. Hyperion (1995).
• David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker — Fundamentals of Physics. Wiley (2014). The standard university textbook; consulted for the conventional chapter structure of induction, thermal physics and fluid mechanics.
• Max Jammer — Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy. Princeton University Press (2000).
• Max Jammer — Concepts of Force: A Study in the Foundations of Dynamics. Harvard University Press / Harper Torchbooks (1957). Reprinted in 1962 and later by Dover Publications.
• Arthur Koestler — The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe. Hutchinson (1959).
• Manjit Kumar — Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality. Icon Books (2010).
• Eric Lauga — Fluid Mechanics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2022). A popular introduction to fluid mechanics; consulted for its historical and conceptual treatment of Stevin and Pascal.
• Eric Mazur — Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual. Prentice Hall (1997). The peer-instruction method in physics teaching; the basis of the ConcepTest questions.
• Paolo Mazzoldi, Massimo Nigro, Cesare Voci — Fisica. Vol. II: Elettromagnetismo e onde. EdiSES (2008). An Italian university textbook; consulted for the presentation of Lenz’s law and of eddy currents.
• Domenico Bertoloni Meli — Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Johns Hopkins University Press (2006).
• Isaac Newton — Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Joseph Streater, London (1687). Edition consulted: the modern reprint edited by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, University of California Press, 1999.
• Thomas L. O’Kuma, David P. Maloney, Curtis J. Hieggelke — Ranking Task Exercises in Physics: Student Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall (2004). A collection of exercises in which the student ranks physical situations according to a given criterion. A source of inspiration for the ranking exercises in this volume.
• H. J. Pain — The Physics of Vibrations and Waves. John Wiley & Sons (2005). A classic text on oscillations. Consulted for the treatment of damping, resonance and mechanical–electromagnetic analogies.
• R. V. Pound, G. A. Rebka, Jr. — Apparent Weight of Photons. Physical Review Letters (1960).
• Thomas Povey — Professor Povey’s Perplexing Problems: Pre-University Physics and Maths Puzzles with Solutions. Oneworld Publications (2015). A collection of non-standard pre-university physics and maths puzzles, with discursive solutions. A source of inspiration for the physical-reasoning exercises.
• Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon & Schuster (1986).
• John S. Rigden — From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries. Dover Publications (2002). Originally published by W. H. Freeman, 1984.
• Carlo Rovelli — Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Allen Lane (2015). Consulted in the Italian original, Sette brevi lezioni di fisica, Adelphi (2014).
• Karl Schwarzschild — Über das Gravitationsfeld eines Massenpunktes nach der Einsteinschen Theorie. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1916). The original memoir presenting the Schwarzschild solution.
• Károly Simonyi — A Cultural History of Physics. CRC Press (2012). Translated from the Hungarian. Covers the history of physics from antiquity to the twentieth century.
• Russell Stannard — Relativity: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2008). A qualitative introduction to general relativity: the equivalence principle, gravitational time dilation, black holes.
• Guido Tonelli — La nascita imperfetta delle cose. Rizzoli (2016). In Italian.
• Giancarlo Tonzig — La fisica del buon Dio. Aracne (2021). An Italian problem-solving text. Consulted for its approach to reasoning problems.
• James S. Walker — Il Walker. Corso di fisica. Linx (Pearson) (2013). The Italian edition of Walker’s textbook for upper-secondary school. Consulted for the expository structure of calorimetry, oscillations and optical instruments.

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