Unit PHYSICS
- Course
- Medicine and surgery
- Study-unit Code
- 50999405
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Andrea Biscarini
- Teachers
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- Andrea Biscarini
- Hours
- 45 ore - Andrea Biscarini
- CFU
- 5
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2017/18
- 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
- Elementary mathematical analysis and vector algebra.
Point mass and rigid body mechanics, anatomical levers.
Fluid mechanics, blood circulation.
Elatic waves, human ear, ultrasounds in medicine.
Thermodynamics, thermoregulation of human body.
Electromagnetism, radiations in medicine.
Optics, human eye. - Reference texts
- D. Scannicchio. "Fisica biomedica". Edises (2013).
Slides at the website: www.unipg.it/andrea.biscarini - Educational objectives
- Knowledge and understanding of the fundamental laws and principles of mechanics (of point mass, point mass systems, rigid body, and fluids), thermodynamics and electromagnetism.
Ability to use the acquired theoretical knowledge for handling with methodological rigor the physical problems that arise in the medical field.
Ability to relate to a problem with a logical, critical, and creative attitude, identifying the physical principles that underlie the problem. - Prerequisites
- Necessary prerequisites: basic knowledge of algebra.
Important prerequisites: basic knowledge of trigonometry.
Useful prerequisites: basic knowledge of mathematical analysis. - Teaching methods
- Face-to-face lectures on all subjects of the course.
- Other information
- None.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of a written test and a voluntary oral test.
The examination, on the whole, is aimed at assessing the degree of knowledge and understanding, the ability to apply the acquired competences to the biomedical field, and the quality of presentation (clarity, coherence, scientific accuracy, completeness, ability to synthesize).
The written test has a duration of 2 hours and consist of six open-answer questions, one on each of the six sections that constitute the course program (see the official program of the course). For each topic, students are asked to discuss the possible applications in the medical field. A score from 0 to 5 points is assigned to each answer.
After the results of the written test have been published, students may decide to integrate this test with a voluntary oral examination (lasting about 30 minutes) that allows the student demonstrate his/her expertise and capacities (including the dialectical ability and the property of language) even with this mode of examination. In this case, the evaluations of the written and the oral tests equally contribute to the final evaluation. - Extended program
- 1 - INTRODUCTION
1.1 - Physics, physical quantities, systems of units of measurement.
1.2 - Elementary vector algebra.
1.3 - Elementary mathematical analysis.
2 - POINT MASS AND RIGID BODY MECHANICS
2.1 - Point mass kinematics.
2.2 - Point mass dynamics and statics.
2.3 - Work and energy.
2.4 - Mechanics of point mass systems and rigid bodies.
2.5 - Biomechanics of the musculo-skeletal system.
3 - FLUID MECHANICS
3.1 - States of matter. Elasiticy. Fluids.
3.2 - Fluid statics.
3.3 - Fluid dynamics and blood circulation.
4 - ELASIC WAVES
4.1 - Waves in elastic media.
4.2 - Sound and human ear.
4.3 - Ultrasounds in medicine.
5 - THERMOLOGY
5.1 - Calorimetry.
5.2 - Thermoregulation of human body.
5.3 - Thermodynamics.
6 - ELECTROMAGNETISM
6.1 - Electic and magnetic interactions.
6.2 - Electromagnetic waves.
6.3 - Radiations in medicine.
6.4 - Optics, human eye.