Unit PHYSICS
- Course
- Medicine and surgery
- Study-unit Code
- 50999405
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Francesca Ripanti
- Teachers
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- Francesca Ripanti
- Hours
- 47.5 ore - Francesca Ripanti
- CFU
- 5
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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.
Thermodynamics, thermoregulation of human body.
Elatic waves, human ear, ultrasounds in medicine.
Electromagnetism, radiations in medicine.
Optics, human eye. - Reference texts
- D. Scannicchio. "Fisica biomedica". Edises (2013).
Slides at the unistudium website of the course. - 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 topics of the course (exercises included).
- Other information
- None.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of a written test and an oral test.
The examination 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 includes both numerical exercises and open questions on the topics of the course. Once the written test has been passed, the student takes an oral test to demonstrate his skills and abilities (in particular, the dialectical ability and the property of language) also on non-numerical problems.
The evaluations of the written and the oral tests equally contribute to the final evaluation.
Information and support for special needs students can be found at the website: https://www.unipg.it/en/international-students/general-information/facilities-for-special-needs-students - 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 - Anatomical levers.
3 - FLUID MECHANICS
3.1 - States of matter. Elasiticy. Fluids.
3.2 - Fluid statics.
3.3 - Fluid dynamics and blood circulation.
4 - THERMOLOGY
4.1 - Calorimetry.
4.2 - Thermoregulation of human body.
4.3 - Thermodynamics.
4.4 - Thermodynamic transformations in ideal gases.
5 - ELASIC WAVES
5.1 - Waves in elastic media.
5.2 - Sound and human ear.
5.3 - Ultrasounds in medicine.
6 - ELECTROMAGNETISM
6.1 - Electic and magnetic interactions.
6.2 - Electromagnetic waves.
6.3 - Radiations in medicine.
6.4 - Optics, human eye.