Teacher
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SPADINI SIMONE
(syllabus)
1) Introduction: - Models, theories, laws, measurements and uncertainties. Units of measurement (International System) - Scalars, vectors and operations between them 2) Basics of kinematics: - Vectors position, velocity, acceleration - Rectilinear motion, decomposition of motion 3) Dynamics - Newton's Laws - Applications, friction forces, normal, weight, Hooke's law - Periodic motions, uniform circular motion, harmonic motion 4) Work and energy - Definition of work, power - Conservative forces, potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy 5) Impact and momentum - Elastic and inelastic impacts - Conservation of momentum 6) Rotational dynamics - Moment of inertia - Rotational kinetic energy - Angular momentum and its conservation 7) Fluid dynamics - Statics: pressure, Stevin's law, Pascal's and Archimedes' principles - Fluid dynamics, Bernoulli's equation - Surface tension and capillarity 8) Waves - Wave motion, propagation and wave characteristics - Reflection interference, superposition and refraction of light - Sound waves and their characteristics 9) Temperature and kinetic energy - Thermometric scales and thermal expansion - Principle 0 of thermodynamics - Gas law, absolute temperature kinetic theory of gases 10) Heat - Internal energy and heat transfer - Changes of state and latent heat 11) Thermodynamics - First and second principles of thermodynamics - Thermodynamic transformations, thermal machines - Definition of entropy 12) Electric field - Structure of atom, electric charges and Coulomb's law - Electric field, electric potential and electric potential energy - Electric capacity 13) Electric current - Ohm's law, Joule effect, electromotive force and simple circuits 14) Magnetic field - Magnetic field characteristics, Lorentz force - Application: mass spectrometer and velocity switch 15) Electromagnetic induction and Faraday's law - Induced electromotive force, Faraday's law Neumann Henry Lentz - Notes on time-varying electric and magnetic fields - Magnetic properties of matter 16) Electromagnetic waves - Physical meaning of Maxwell's equations - Electromagnetic waves and their spectra 17) Light, geometric optics - Reflection and refraction of light - Approximation of thin lenses and optical instruments 18) wave nature of light - Interference of electromagnetic waves, diffraction, Huygens' principle - Diffraction and spectroscopy
(reference books)
‘FISICA con fisica modera’, D. Giancoli, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
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