Unit SOLAR SYSTEM PHYSICS
- Course
- Physics
- Study-unit Code
- GP005451
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maurizio Maria Busso
- Teachers
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- Maurizio Maria Busso
- Sara Palmerini (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 14 ore - Maurizio Maria Busso
- 28 ore (Codocenza) - Sara Palmerini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- FIS/05
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Formation of the Solar System and subsequent evolution of the material in the remaining disc, to the formation of solids and the evolution of the planets. Dynamical organization of the system and its perturbations. Physics of the Sun and its evolution.
- Reference texts
- B. Bertotti et al. Physics of the Solar System;
C. Barbieri: Astronomy;F. LeBlanc: An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics + Material made available by the teacher. - Educational objectives
- A modern view of the solar system, including the processes that induce the formation and evolution of the Sun and the physics of the Solar System disc, through its evolution for the formation of the planetary system. A knowledge
- Prerequisites
- A good knowledge of classical physcis and of the usual methods of calculus.
- Teaching methods
- frontal lesson
- Learning verification modality
- oral exam
- Extended program
- Formation and evolution of the solar system. Formation, structure, composition and evolution of the Sun. Coordinate systems. Motion of the Earth, Euler’s equations, precession of the orbit, measuring time through astronomical phenomena. The 2-body problem in the Solar System. Lagrange’s method to derive the orbits. The three body problem, Lagrangian points and Hill’s surfaces. Perturbations and resonances in the Solar System. Meteorites and their composition. Pristine meteorites and presolar grains. Many body problems. Mechanisms of planetary formation