Unit PHYSICS
- Course
- Medicine and surgery
- Study-unit Code
- GP004734
- Location
- TERNI
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Roberta Volpe
- Teachers
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- Roberta Volpe
- Hours
- 62.5 ore - Roberta Volpe
- CFU
- 5
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline generali per la formazione del medico
- Academic discipline
- FIS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodinamics, Electricity Magnetism Waves Radiation
- Reference texts
- D.Halliday, R.Resnick, J.Walker, Fondamenti di Fisica, ed. C.E.A.
- Educational objectives
- The student must demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the arguments developed in the program.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of basic elements of maths, informatics and English language
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face lessons
- Learning verification modality
- Written test to demonstrate knowledge of subjects and ability to solve elementary excercises.
- Extended program
- Fluid mechanics, pressure, Pascal's principle, Stevin's law and hydrostatic pressure, Archimede's law, Bernouilli's law, Poiseuille's law and viscosity coefficient,
Thermology: heat and temperature, effects of heat: heating and specific heat, phase transformation and latent heat, saturated vapor pressure and boiling temperature; heat flow and thermal balance law; heat propagation mechanisms: conduction, convection and radiation,
Waves: general, propagation speed, frequency, wavelength, harmonic waves, superposition principle
Radiation: power and intensity of a wave, photons, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
Electrostatics: electric force, electric field: electric field vector, electric potential, field lines and equipotential surfaces, electric field sources, effects of the electric field on dielectrics and on conductors, electrical capacity of a conductor;
Electric currents: electric current intensity, Ohm's laws and electric resistance, Joule effect, electric circuits, series and parallel connections of resistors and capacitors;
Magnetism: magnetic induction vector, Lorentz force, magnetic field sources: magnets and Ampere law,
Electromagnetic field: electromagnetic induction, magnetic flux, electromotive force, origin of electromagnetic waves.
Radiation