00972 - History of Physics

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 9245)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will know: - the main physicists, experiments and events that characterized the development of ideas and experimental techniques in physics; - methods and tools for historical analyses. The student will be able to: - place specialized topics already addressed in their studies within a historiographic framework; - analyze the historical-scientific evolution of knowledge, with particular attention to the development of knowledge, productivity and creativity in physics; - work in a team for the search, choice and analysis of historical materials; - develop a project of historical analysis and present it.

Office hours

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