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The electric charge
Insulators and conductors
The electroscope
The Coulomb's law
   
exercises

Electric current and series-parallel circuits.
Electric energy and power in circuits.
  
exercises (1)
   exercises (2)

Magnets and electric current-carrying wires
Basic nature of the magnetic force: Lorentz force
Application of the Lorentz Force: the electric motor
The source of the magnetic field
Electromagnetic induction

General features of waves
Electromagnetic waves and light
Wavefronts and rays: the law of reflection
Refraction of light and its dispersion through a prism
    An exercise on the refraction law
 

Evidence of atom: the mass conservation principle and the law of definite proportion.
    exercises
Thomson's experiment and the discovery of the electron
    exercise
Millikan's experience (English) - L'esperimento di Millikan (Italiano)

 

A criticism to the Rutherford's model of the atom: the Rydberg-Ritz formula.
The Bohr's model of the atom.
Origin of the Quantum Mechanics: particle wave hypothesis of de Broglie.
Origin of the Quantum Mechanics: Erwin Schrödinger and the new theory.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

 

Sviluppo storico della teoria dei Quanta.
Realismo-determinismo e visione moderna in fisica.