Principles and Equations of Physics: a multidisciplinary laboratory

Abstract

In the last two academical years, as part of the Italian Ministry plan PLS – “Piano Lauree Scientifiche” (Scientific Degree Plan), two courses for high school students and teachers consisting in some interdisciplinary and transversal online meetings have been proposed. They regarded the three principles of dynamics, the law of universal gravitation and Maxwell’s equations. “Variations” around these topics were also presented – of historical, philosophical and also of musical nature – to make the cultural setting of what has been discussed deeper and make it meaningful in the present. At the end of each course, students produced a video of few minutes with a personal reworking and rethinking of the meaning of one of the topics discussed.