Physics in Laboratory. Experiments for Engineering Physics Courses

Physics Laboratory for Engineering students in Padova University is organised in Real Time Laboratory (RTL) mode, that is, it is based on a measurement system featuring sensors, interface and computer as main instruments. The RTL approach allows the students to face both the experimental side, by proposing the preparation of an experiment and its setup, and the analytic side, by performing quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The outlined didactic proposal generates a learning process, rather than a teaching one. Such a choice allows to provide to the students useful tools which allows them to move on from a real complex phenomenology to the abstraction of a Physics law.