Giovanni Organtini
@organtin.bsky.social
Physicist and physics educator. Author of "Physics experiments with Arduino and Smartphone" and science teaching innovator.
I am honoured to have been invited to this conference as one of the keynote speakers phyphox.org/10y-conferen...
phyphox - The Conference
phyphox ‐ Die Jubiläumsshow Deutsch, 14.09.2026You are here → phyphox ‐ The Conference English, 24.09.2026phyphox ‐ Die Sommerfortbildung Deutsch, 25.09.2026 In celebration of the 10th ...
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"Physics Experiments with Arduino and smartphones" is now on sale, in its eBook version, with a substantial discount of more than 67% link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Physics Experiments with Arduino and Smartphones
This book offers a modern approach to physics experiments, with Arduino and Smartphones used as DAQ systems. It integrates physics, data collection and ...
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Nei giorni scorsi mi è stato chiesto un parere sulla bozza delle Indicazioni Nazionali per quanto riguarda la fisica. Rendo pubblico il mio punto di vista sull'argomento. giovanniorgantini.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/s...
Sulle nuove indicazioni nazionali
Il Ministero dell’Istruzione ha pubblicato una bozza delle nuove Indicazioni Nazionali per i Licei. In questo articolo ne analizziamo i contenuti.
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This year, our students were let to design, build and make their own experiment. Apparently, lot of fun. Will see in two weeks if they also got meaningful data.
When we arrive at an answer by solving an equation, we often do so by explaining why we follow those particular steps. There are a few simple rules to follow: avoid square roots, avoid fractions, and move quantities that have something in common to one side of the equation.
The authors of "A Modern Takes on Physics" take the opposite approach to other authors: rather than attempting to describe quantum systems using classical categories, we describe classical systems using the language of modern physics.
In "A Modern Take on Physics" we note, by an experiment, that the length ℓ of a long bar depends on the temperature T, i.e. ℓ=ℓ(T). We don't know how, but certainly ℓ does not depend too much on T, so, by Taylor expansion, ℓ(T)≃ℓ₀+a(T-T₀)=ℓ₀(1+𝛼ΔT).
Lunedì, presso il rettorato dell'università di Roma TRE, presenterò la mia proposta didattica per un rinnovamento dell'insegnamento della fisica alla conferenza annuale dell'associazione italiana studenti di fisica ai-sf.it/cisf26/
Unlike other authors, our textbook begins by addressing the problem of defining the physical quantity represented by temperature. We demonstrate that our intuitive understanding, based on the sensation of heat, is misleading and that we need an instrument to measure it...
Our interpretation of the "scientific method", aka the "Nature of Science". Physicists "believe" in what they measure to the extent that the results of their experiments are consistent with their "beliefs". But they are prepared to change their view...
📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.” RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
My book "Physics Experiments with @officialarduino.bsky.social and smartphones" is now on sale on the @springernature.com website. Get it for only 12.99 EUR! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
In our “A Modern Take on Physics,” we want to make it clear from the outset that, for us, mathematics is a language. Concise yet highly expressive, like a poem, in which even what is not explicitly written becomes apparent.
Our course ‘A Modern Take on Physics’ begins with a summary of the entire textbook. Students appreciate what we teach them much more if they know where we are taking them. Right from the very first pages, it is clear that this is not a conventional course...
Ho l'impressione che possa essere d'interesse per @terminologiaetc.it
New @phyphox.org experiment dropped to www.smartphysicslab.org/resources.html to measure the distance to the Moon. Direct link: github.com/smartphysics.... Enjoy!
Teaching resources
A list of physics experiments to be done using a smartphone and/or an Arduino board
smartphysicslab.org
The smartphone physics challenge, vulgarisation.fr/smartphone-p..., by @julien-bobroff.bsky.social, @organtin.bsky.social, and others:
La hostess ha detto che per il nostro conforto è meglio se teniamo le cinture allacciate durante il volo. A @terminologiaetc.it sarebbe venuto uno stranguglione.
Qualche idea per uso dello smartphone a fini didattici? Come dite? È vietato? 🤔 youtu.be/gkBeOF3DrDQ?...
The Smartphone Physics Challenge
YouTube video by La Physique Autrement
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Caduta libera. Quello che per Einstein era solo un gedankenexperiment ora è realtà. Sistemi di riferimento accelerati. Dinamica a bordo della ISS. Ma il Ministro dice che è vietato.
This will be interesting for anyone who, like me, is passionate about fonts and typefaces.
Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · last yr.David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...
Accelerazioni in ascensore con @phyphox.org . Ci si fa una quantità innumerevole di esercizi di cinematica, imparando anche a interpretare dati e a leggere grafici. Si capisce la relazione tra accelerazione, velocità e posizione. Ma il Ministro non vuole.
My book 'A Modern Take on Physics' began to be written many years ago, when I started teaching physics to people who considered it an uninteresting, boring and incomprehensible subject.
On the use of mathematics as a language in physics. A Modern Takes on Physics published by @worldscientific.bsky.social. @keithkahnharris.bsky.social
Art meets science: Josè Angelino's works in @worldscientific.bsky.social's "A Modern Take on Physics" to introduce quantum field theory.
Art meets science: in "A Modern Take on Physics", published by @worldscientific.bsky.social, an artwork by Giuseppe Penone serves as a tool to explain the meaning of "emergent phenomena" and the limits of the reductionist approach, typical of traditionally taught physics.
