Unit PHYSICS
- Course
- Engineering management
- Study-unit Code
- A002908
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
PHYSICS I
| Code | A002909 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Alessandra Luchini |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Fisica e chimica |
| Academic discipline | FIS/01 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Contents | Introduction: the scientific methods and vectors Motion in one dimension Motion in two and three dimensions Newton’s laws Work and kinetic energy Conservation of Energy Conservation of Linear Momentum Rotation and Angular momentum Introduction to fluids Thermodynamics |
| Reference texts | Physics for Scientists and Engineers: With Modern Physics by Tipler, Paul A.; Mosca, Gene Handsout available on UniStudium |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge of the physical laws of mechanics, thermodynamics. Capability of solving problems concerning mechanics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism. |
| Prerequisites | Good skills in algebra, geometry, trigonometry are required, as well a basic knowledge of the differential calculus |
| Teaching methods | The course consists of face-to-face lectures on all subjects |
| Learning verification modality | Written test with exercises and theory questions on first module subjects. |
| Extended program | MOTION IN ONE DIMENSION: Displacement, Velocity, and Speed; Acceleration; Motion with Constant Acceleration; MOTION IN TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONS: Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration; Projectile Motion; Circular Motion NEWTON’S LAWS: Newton’s First Law: The Law of Inertia; Force and Mass; Newton’s Second Law; Weight; Springs, and Strings; Newton’s Third Law; Friction; Drag Forces; Motion Along a Curved Path WORK AND KINETIC ENERGY: Work Done by a Constant Force; Work Done by a Variable Force; Work–Kinetic-Energy Theorem; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY: Potential Energy; The Conservation of Mechanical Energy; The Conservation of Energy; CONSERVATION OF LINEAR MOMENTUM: Conservation of Linear Momentum; Kinetic Energy of a System; Collisions ROTATION AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM: Rotational Kinematics; Rotational Kinetic Energy; Calculating the Moment of Inertia; Newton’s Second Law for Rotation; Torque and Angular Momentum; Conservation of Angular Momentum FLUIDS; Density; Pressure in a Fluid; Buoyancy and Archimedes’ Principle; THERMODYNAMICS: Thermal Equilibrium and Temperature; The Ideal-Gas Law; The Kinetic Theory of Gases; Heat Capacity and Specific Heat; First Law of Thermodynamics; The Internal Energy of an Ideal Gas; Heat Capacities; Second Law of Thermodynamics; Irreversibility, Disorder, and Entropy; Thermal properties and processes |
PHYSICS II
| Code | A002910 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Alessandra Luchini |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Fisica e chimica |
| Academic discipline | FIS/01 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Contents | Harmonic Oscillator The Electric Field Charge Distributions Electric Potential Capacitance Electric Current and Direct-Current Circuits The Magnetic Field Sources of the Magnetic Field Magnetic Induction Alternating-Current Circuits Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Waves |
| Reference texts | Physics for Scientists and Engineers: With Modern Physics by Tipler, Paul A.; Mosca, Gene Handsout available on UniStudium |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge of the physical laws of electromagnetism and waves. Capability of solving problems concerning electromagnetism and waves. |
| Prerequisites | Good skills in algebra, geometry, trigonometry are required, as well a basic knowledge of the differential calculus |
| Teaching methods | The course consists of face-to-face lectures on all subjects |
| Other information | |
| Learning verification modality | Written test with exercises and theory questions on second module subjects. |
| Extended program | - Harmonic oscillator: horizontal and vertical mass attached to a spring, the simple pendulum. - Charges and electric field: Coulomb's law and electric dipole; -continuous charge distributions: the case of the wire, the ring, disk and the sphere; -Electric potential; - Capacitance: parallel plates and cylindrical capacitors; - Electric current and DC circuits: RC circuits and charging and discharging of a capacitor; - Magnetic field: magnetic force and moving charges; -sources of magnetic field: magnetic fields and currents, Biot-Savart's law, Ampère's law; -magnetic induction: Faraday's law and Lenz's law; -Alternating current circuits: RL, LC, RLC circuits; - Maxwell's equations: displacement current, Ampère-Maxwell's law, Maxwell's equation in vacuum |