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PHYSICS/MATHEMATICS

Rocco ROMANO PHYSICS/MATHEMATICS

0712100031
DIPARTIMENTO DI FARMACIA
EQF6
HERBAL SCIENCE
2024/2025

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2020
AUTUMN SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
1FISICA E PRINCIPI DI STATISTICA MODULO DI FISICA E MATEMATICA
648LESSONS
2ELEMENTI DI MATEMATICA MODULO DI FISICA E MATEMATICA
324LESSONS
ROCCO ROMANO1 T Curriculum
ILARIA VERONESI2 Curriculum
ExamDate
GENNAIO06/02/2025
GENNAIO06/02/2025
Objectives
KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAIN PHYSICS THEORETICAL MODELS TO BE APPLIED TO THE FOLLOWING COURSES, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THERMODYNAMICS PRINCIPLES, ELECTROSTATICS AND ELECTRODYNAMICS, OPTICS.
ACQUISTION OF BASIC MATHEMATICAL AND GEOMETRICAL TOOLS PROPEDEUTIC TO THE SUBSEQUENT COURSES;
ACQUISITION OF BASIC STATISTICS KNOWLEDGE APPLIED TO THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS.
IN PARTICULAR, IT DESCRIBES AND EXAMINES THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL PHYSICS (MECHANICS, FLUID MECHANICS, THERMODYNAMICS AND ELEMENTS OF ELECTROMAGNETISM) AND ELEMENTS OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS RELATED TO THE STUDY OF PHYSICS.
THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE TEACHING IS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH THE BASIS FOR THE STUDY OF ELEMENTARY PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, USING THE MATHEMATICAL TOOLS LEARNED, FOR A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE BASIC SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS METHODS.
THE MAIN KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED WILL BE:
• ANALYSIS AND USE OF VECTORS FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; BASIC ELEMENTS OF LINEAR AND MATRIX ALGEBRA FOR SOLVING LINEAR EQUATION SYSTEMS;
• STUDY OF KINEMATICS AND MOTION LAWS; ELEMENTS OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS: CONCEPT OF FUNCTION, LIMIT AND DERIVATIVE; RESOLVING TECHNIQUES FOR CALCULATING LIMITS; CALCULATION OF DERIVATIVES;
• PRINCIPLES OF DYNAMICS; WORK AND ENERGY; INTEGRAL CONCEPT OF A FUNCTION AND INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES;
CONSERVATION LAWS: ENERGY AND MOMENTUM; MAXIMUM, MINIMUM AND INFLECTION POINTS OF A FUNCTION;
• PRINCIPLES OF FLUID MECHANICS;
• LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS; ELEMENTS OF DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS;
• OVERVIEW OF ELECTROMAGNETISM AND OPTICS; INFERENTIAL STATISTIC ELEMENTS.
THE MAIN SKILLS (I.E. THE ABILITY TO APPLY THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE) WILL BE:
• ANALYZING SIMPLE MECHANICAL AND KINEMATIC PHYSICAL SYSTEMS DETERMINING THE MOTION; ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL SYSTEMS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ENERGY; ANALYSIS AND SOLUTION OF THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEMS WITH DETERMINATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF CYCLES OF ELEMENTARY THERMAL MACHINES.
• RESOLUTION OF SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS RELATED TO THE RESOLUTION OF PHYSICAL AND/OR CHEMICAL PROBLEMS; RESOLUTION OF SIMPLE BUT RECURRENT INTEGRALS IN THE STUDY OF SCIENCES; CALCULATION OF DERIVATIVES; CALCULATION OF MATRIX DETERMINANTS AND OPERATIONS WITH THE SAME.


Prerequisites
THE STUDENT MUST HAVE ACQUIRED THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF GEOMETRY AND ALGEBRA PROVIDED BY THE NORMAL
HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULA.
Contents
THE TEACHING COURSE CONSISTS OF TWO MODULES: PHYSICS MODULE (6 CFU, 48 HOURS) AND MATHEMATICAL MODULE (3 CFU, 24 HOURS).
THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE PHYSICS MODULE ARE:
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS - PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT - SCALAR AND VECTOR QUANTITIES - INTRODUCTION TO VECTOR CALCULATION
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU)
INTRODUCTION TO KINEMATICS, MEAN SPEED AND VELOCITY - INSTANTANEOUS SPEED AND VELOCITY; MEAN SCALAR AND VECTORIAL ACCELERATION - INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION - ACCELERATIONS IN STRAIGHT MOTION - ACCELERATION IN UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION - ACCELERATION IN A GENERAL MOTION
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU)
THE PRINCIPLES OF DYNAMICS - LAWS OF FORCE: GRAVITATIONAL FORCE - WEIGHT FORCE - REACTION FORCE OF A SUPPORT PLANE - FRICTION FORCES - TENSION OF A ROPE - CENTRIPETAL FORCES
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU)
CONSERVATIVE FORCES - POTENTIAL ENERGY FUNCTION - MECHANICAL ENERGY AND ITS CONSERVATION - CENTER OF MASS AND MOMENTUM - NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR A PARTICLE SYSTEM - MOMENTUM - COLLISION AND IMPULSE - IMPULSE THEOREM
(8 HOURS, 1 CFU)
ROTATIONAL VARIABLES - ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY - CALCULATION OF THE MOMENT OF INERTIA - MOMENT OF A FORCE - NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR ROTATIONAL MOTION
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU)
FLUIDS: PRESSURE AND DENSITY - STATIC FLUID LAWS - FLUID IN MOTION: EULERIAN POINT OF VIEW - IDEAL FLUIDS - BERNOULLI’S THEOREM
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU)
VISCOUS FLUIDS - POISEILLE’S LAW - TURBULENT MOTION - BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT - BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES - DIFFUSION - BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES - PASSIVE MECHANISMS - OSMOSIS - OSMOSIS LAWS CAPILLARY MEMBRANES - LUNG MEMBRANES - INTESTINAL MEMBRANE
(6 HOURS, 3/4 CFU)
INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS - ZERO PRINCIPLE OF THERMODYNAMICS - TEMPERATURE - CONSTANT VOLUME THERMOMETER - THERMAL EXPANSION - SPECIFIC HEAT - THERMODYNAMIC WORK - I PRINCIPLE OF THERMODYNAMICS - IDEAL GASES - CALCULATION OF SPECIFIC HEATS AT CONSTANT VOLUME AND PRESSURE - ENTROPY AND THE II PRINCIPLE OF THERMODYNAMICS - CLAUSIUS AND KELVIN FORMULATIONS - THERMAL MACHINES - CARNOT CYCLE - REFRIGERATING MACHINES - CARNOT THEOREM - RESOLUTION OF EXERCISES AND THERMODYNAMIC PROBLEMS
(10 HOURS, 5/4 CFU)
ELEMENTS OF STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU)
THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE MATH MODULE ARE:
LINEAR ALGEBRA - MATRICES: GENERAL. OPERATIONS BETWEEN MATRICES. SPECIAL MATRICES (2 HOURS). RANK OF A MATRIX. DETERMINANT OF A SQUARE MATRIX. CALCULATION OF DETERMINANTS (2 HOURS). INVERSE OF A MATRIX. CALCULATING THE INVERSE. (2 HOURS). LINEAR SYSTEMS. GENERALITY. LINEAR MATRICES AND SYSTEMS. COMPATIBLE AND INCOMPATIBLE SYSTEMS (2 HOURS). RESOLUTION OF A LINEAR SYSTEM WITH THE INVERSE MATRIX METHOD AND WITH THE CRAMER METHOD. (2 HOURS)

ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY (REVIEW): CONCEPT OF COORDINATES. STRAIGHT LINE EQUATION. PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR STRAIGHT LINES. DISTANCE OF A POINT FROM A STRAIGHT LINE. (2 HOURS). CONICS (CIRCUMFERENCE, ELLIPSE, HYPERBOLA AND PARABOLA) CANONICAL EQUATION OF A CONIC. STRAIGHT LINE TANGENT TO A CONIC SECTION (2 HOURS)

ANALYSIS ELEMENTS: CONCEPT OF FUNCTION, GRAPH, INVERTIBLE FUNCTIONS. PROPERTIES OF SOME ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONS, POWER FUNCTION AND NTH ROOT FUNCTION (2 HOURS). PROPERTIES OF THE FUNCTIONS: EXPONENTIAL AND PROTRACTOR AND THEIR INVERSE (2 HOURS). DOMAIN SEARCH FOR A FUNCTION (2 HOURS). TOPOLOGY ELEMENTS: SURROUNDINGS AND ACCUMULATION POINTS. DEFINITION OF LIMIT. (2 HOURS). CALCULATION OF SOME FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS ASYMPTOTES OF A FUNCTION (2 HOURS).
Teaching Methods
THE TEACHING IS ARTICULATED IN TWO MODULES AND PROVIDES 72 HOURS OF ASSISTED TEACHING (9 CFU) DIVIDED BETWEEN
HOURS OF TEACHING IN THE FORM OF LESSONS AND HOURS OF EXERCISES.
48 HOURS (6 CFU) ARE OCCUPIED BY THE TEACHING PHYSICS MODULE, AND 24 HOURS (3 CFU) FROM THE MATH MODULE.
IN THE PHYSICS MODULE, TWO THIRDS OF THE LECTURE HOURS ARE THEORETICAL FRONTAL TYPE AND A THIRD AS HOURS OF EXERCISES (WITH A LEARNING-BY-DOING APPROACH) ON THE CONCEPTS DEFINED IN THE THEORETICAL LESSONS
IN THE MATH MODULE, TWO THIRDS OF THE HOURS ARE DELIVERED AS THEORETICAL FRONTAL LESSONS AND A THIRD AS HOURS OF EXERCISES (WITH A LEARNING-BY-DOING APPROACH) ON THE CONCEPTS DEFINED IN THE THEORETICAL LESSONS


Verification of learning
THE LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBJECTIVES OF THE TEACHING IS CERTIFIED BY THE PASSING OF AN EXAMINATION WITH EVALUATION IN THIRTIETHS. THE VERIFICATION INCLUDES, FOR EACH MODULE, A WRITTEN TEST PASSED WHICH THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE AN ORAL TEST WHICH IS PLACED ON A DAY OTHER THAN THAT OF THE WRITTEN TEST.
FOR EACH MODULE, THE WRITTEN TEST, DURING 2 HOURS, CONSISTS OF A MULTIPLE ANSWER TEST THAT PROVIDES THE RESOLUTION OF EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS ON TOPICS OF THE TEACHING PROGRAM.
THE PROPOSED EXERCISES ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE RESOLVED DURING THE LESSON / EXERCISE HOURS.
EACH WRITTEN TEST IS CARRIED OUT BEFORE THE ORAL TEST AND IS CONSIDERED PASSED WITH THE REACHING OF THE ESTABLISHED MINIMUM SCORE.



THE PURPOSE OF THE TEST IS TO VERIFY: THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND PROBLEMS PROPOSED DURING THE COURSE, THE ABILITY TO CORRECTLY APPLY THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE, THE ABILITY TO FORMULATE THE APPROPRIATE APPROACH TO THE SOLUTION OF THE PROPOSED PROBLEMS. DURING THE TEST IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO CONSULT NOTES, PHOTOCOPIES AND/OR TEXTS DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET; IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO USE PC OR SMART PHONE; IT IS PERMITTED TO USE THE SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR AND CONSULT THE TEXT BOOK ONLY. EACH ORAL EXAM CONSISTS IN A DISCUSSION OF DURATION NOT EXCEEDING ABOUT 30 MINUTES, AIMED TO ENSURE:
• THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF THEORETICAL CONTENTS (AND APPLICATIONS, IN THE CASE OF ERRORS PRESENT IN THE WRITTEN TEST OR OF SIGNIFICANT UNRESOLVED EXERCISES)
• THE LEVEL OF COMPETENCE ACHIEVED IN THE EXHIBITION: LANGUAGE PROPERTIES, LOGICAL-DEDUCTIVE AND SYNTHESIS CAPACITY, ABILITY TO ARGUE, AUTONOMY OF JUDGEMENT IN PROPOSING THE MOST APPROPRIATE APPROACH TO
ARGUING WHAT IS REQUIRED.
THE FINAL VOTE GETS FROM THE RESULT OF THE ORAL TESTS ONLY AND CONSTITUTES A WEIGHTED AVERAGE. THE MINIMUM RATING TO PASS THE EXAM IS 18/30. LAUDATION CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO STUDENTS WHO REACH THE MAXIMUM RATING OF 30/30 AND DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO APPLY THEIR OWN KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS ACQUIRED EVEN IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS THAN THOSE OFFERED IN CLASS.

Texts
FOR THE PHYSICS MODULE
J. WALKER, HALLIDAY-RESNICK FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS, SEVENTH EDITION, AMBROSIANA PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2015

FOR THE MATH MODULE
F.A.RUSSO-L.TADDEO
ELEMENTI DI ALGEBRA LINEARE ED ANALISI
CASA EDITRICE: ARACNE
EDIZIONE: 2020
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