5614 Small physics laboratory

Suitable for primary schools.
96 performable experiments.

MECHANICS
• Knowing forces
• Forces in action
• Weight is a force
• The spring scale and its calibration
• Other kinds of forces
• A strange addition
• Friction forces
• Center of gravity
• Let’s use our force in a wise way
• The equilibrium of a rod
• Levers
• Pulleys
• Inclined plane

THERMOLOGY
• Let’s tell apart heat and temperature
• Alcohol burner
• The combustion
• The thermometer and its calibration
• Thermal expansion of solids
• Thermal expansion of liquids
• Thermal expansion of gases
• Heat and temperature
• Heat propagation through conduction
• Good conductors and bad conductors
• Propagation of heat into liquids
• The convention of heat
• Irradiation
• Fusion and solidification
• Evaporation
• Boiling
• Steam condensation
• Fractional distillation

OPTICS
• Dioptric projector
• Perchè vediamo gli oggetti?
• Do light rays exist?
• Lighting law
• The game of shadows
• Eclypses
• Reflection of light
• Spherical mirrors
• When the light passes from the air to a transparent
body
• When the light passes from a transparent body
to the air
• Total reflection
• Lenses
• Decomposition of white light
• Immages in flat mirrors
• Immages in lenses
• The eye and its defects
• Composed microscope
• Slides projector

ELECTROLOGY
• Knowing electricity
• Static electricity
• Protons and electrons
• Electric forces
• Electric induction
• Conductors and insulants
• The electroscope
• Let’s learn how to use an electroscope
• Flashes and lightings
• Electricity on the move
• Batteries
• The electric circuit
• Light bulbs in series and in parallel
• Transformation of electric power into heat
• Electric conduction in liquids
• Electrolysis
• Magnets
• Magnetic poles
• Magnetic effect of the electric current
• The electromagnet
• Electric alarm