The physics laboratory: A colossal interactive space at Universidad Surcolombiana. El laboratorio de física. Un colosal espacio interactivo en la Universidad Surcolombiana

Abstract

1. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE USCO PHYSICS LAB

It originated a little more than 23 years ago in the curiosity booths and in the collections of the German scientific companies of the former GDR specialized at that time, apparently in material for what is now called secondary. These collections arrived copiously during the birth and from them began to emerge what is now our brand new physics laboratory. When physics laboratories were designed, it was thought to serve science and the regional industry. But what was never suspected is that they were to fall into the museum category of the history of physics, where they are preserved from old objects such as the old laboratory guides that are still used, not because they were important for the development of physics in Huila, but because it has not been possible to change the assemblies, which show the principles not of physics, but the principles of the century.