PHYSICS

Rocco ROMANO PHYSICS

0760400002
DIPARTIMENTO DI FARMACIA
EQF7
PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
2024/2025

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2023
AUTUMN SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
972LESSONS
ExamDate
GENNAIO03/02/2025
GENNAIO03/02/2025
Objectives
THE PHYSICS COURSE AIMS TO TRAIN THE STUDENT IN THE STUDY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES. IN PARTICULAR, THE STUDY OF PHYSICAL MODELS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS, FOR THEIR SIMPLICITY, WILL BE USEFUL TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY TO FORMULATE MODELS, TO USE MATHEMATICAL TOOLS TO TRANSLATE THEM INTO OBJECTIVE AND COMMUNICABLE RESULTS AND TO TEST THE ASSUMPTIONS ON WHICH SUCH MODELS ARE BASED. THE STUDENT WILL UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE MATHEMATICAL AND GEOMETRY TOOLS AND APPLICATION MODELS BASED ON MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
AT THE END OF THE COURSE THE STUDENT WILL KNOW 1. SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC NOTATION UNITS, ROUNDING, ERRORS, SIGNIFICANT FIGURES, 2. LAWS OF MOTION, 3. PRINCIPLES OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE MATERIAL POINT, 4. CONCEPTS OF WORK AND ENERGY - CONSERVATION LAWS, 5. FLUID MECHANICS, 6. WAVE PHENOMENA AND WAVE TYPES, 7. PRINCIPLES OF THERMODYNAMICS, 8. CLASSICAL ELECTROMAGNETISM ELEMENTS - GEOMETRIC OPTICS.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
AT THE END OF THE COURSE THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO 1. TRANSLATE INTO MATHEMATICAL MODELS THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES LINKED TO LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, 2. EXAMINE MODELS FOR LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS, 3. DEVELOP THE RESULTS AND VERIFY THE SOUNDNESS OF MODEL ASSUMPTIONS, 4. SOLVE PROBLEMS USING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND THE ASSUMPTIONS ON WHICH THEY ARE BASED.
MAKING JUDGMENTS:
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO 1. ASSESS THE CORRECTNESS OF ASSUMPTIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN THE LABORATORY, 2. DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT ASSUMPTIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS, 3. SELECT THE MODEL BEST SUITED TO THE STUDY NEEDS OF EXPERIMENTAL THEORETICAL ISSUES.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO FORMULATE, REPRESENT, AND COMMUNICATE THE RESULTS OF THEIR OWN RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT, GIVING A DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSUMPTIONS AND MODELS USED.
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 A SINGLE MODULE OF 72 HOURS (9 CFU)
THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE MCONSERVATIVE FORCES: POTENTIAL ENERGY FUNCTION - MECHANICAL ENERGY AND ITS CONSERVATION - CENTERODULE ARE:
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS - PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT - SCALAR AND VECTOR QUANTITIES - INTRODUCTION TO VECTOR CALCULATION -
(2 HOURS OF THEORY, 1/4 CFU)
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 - INTEGRATION OF THE EQUATIONS OF KINEMATICS IN THE CASE OF THE MOTION OF A PROJECTILE - EXAMPLES AND EXERCISES
(4 HOURS OF THEORY, 1/2 CFU; 4 HOURS OF PRACTICE, 1/2 CFU)
THE PRINCIPLES OF DYNAMICS - LAWS OF FORCE: GRAVITATIONAL FORCE - WEIGHT FORCE - REACTION FORCE OF A SUPPORTING PLANE - FRICTION FORCES - TENSION OF A ROPE - CENTRIPETAL FORCES
(4 HOURS OF THEORY, 1/2 CREDITS; 2 HOURS OF PRACTICE, 1/4 CREDITS)
CONSERVATIVE FORCES: POTENTIAL ENERGY FUNCTION - MECHANICAL ENERGY AND ITS CONSERVATION -MASS CENTRE AND MOMENTUM - NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR A PARTICLE SYSTEM - MOMENTUM - IMPACT AND IMPULSE - IMPULSE THEOREM
(6 HOURS OF THEORY, 3/4 CFU; 4 HOURS OF PRACTICE, 1/2 CFU)
ROTATIONAL VARIABLES -ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY - CALCULATION OF THE MOMENT OF INERTIA - MOMENT OF A FORCE - NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR ROTARY MOTION - EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS FOR A RIGID BODY - STATIONARY EQUILIBRIUM - EXAMPLES AND APPLICATIONS
(6 HOURS OF THEORY, 3/4 CFU)
FLUIDS: PRESSURE AND DENSITY - LAWS OF FLUID STATICS - MOVING FLUIDS: EULERIAN POINT OF VIEW - FLOW RATE - FLOW CONSTANCY - IDEAL FLUIDS - BERNOULLI THEOREM
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU; 2 HOURS OF PRACTICE, ¼ CFU)
VISCOUS FLUIDS - ERYTHROCYTES - CENTRIFUGES - POISEILLE LAW - TURBULENT MOTION - BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU)
INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS - THE ZERO PRINCIPLE OF THERMODYNAMICS - TEMPERATURE - CONSTANT VOLUME THERMOMETER - THERMAL EXPANSION - THERMAL CAPACITY - SPECIFIC HEATS - THERMODYNAMIC WORK - THE PRINCIPLE OF THERMODYNAMICS - IDEAL GASES - KINETIC THEORY OF GASES - CALCULATION OF SPECIFIC HEATS AT CONSTANT VOLUME AND PRESSURE - ENTROPY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THERMODYNAMICS - CLAUSIUS AND KELVIN STATEMENTS - THERMAL MACHINES - CARNOT CYCLE - REFRIGERATING MACHINES - CARNOT THEOREM - SOLUTION OF EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS
(8 HOURS, 1 CFU; 4 HOURS OF PRACTICE; 1/2 CFU)
ELECTRICITY - ELECTRIC CHARGES - COULOMB LAW - ELECTRIC FIELD - ELECTRIC FLOW - GAUSS LAW - INSULATED LOAD CONDUCTOR - ELECTRIC POTENTIAL - EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES AND ELECTRIC FIELD -
ELECTRIC CURRENT - MAGNETIC FIELDS AND DEFINITION OF B - LORENTZ FORCE - MAGNETIC FORCE ACTING ON A WIRE CURRENT PATH - MOMENT ON A COIL - MAGNETIC FIELDS GENERATED BY CURRENT - FORCE BETWEEN PARALLEL CONDUCTORS - AMPERE LAW; LAWS OF DAY AND LINES - INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS - GAUSS LAW FOR MAGNETIC FIELD - INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS - DISPLACEMENT CURRENT - MAXWELL EQUATIONS
(4 HOURS, 1/2 CFU)
WAVES; TRANSVERSE WAVES; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE INTERFERENCE; STATIONARY AND RESONANT WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY TRANSPORT AND POYNTING VECTOR; RADIATION PRESSURE; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION AND REFRACTION; TOTAL REFLECTION; POLARIZATION BY REFLECTION
(5 HOURS OF THEORY, 5/8 CFU; 2 HOURS OF EXERCISES, ¼ OF CFU)
GEOMETRIC OPTICS; IMAGES AND MIRRORS; SPHERICAL MIRRORS; THIN LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
(3 HOURS OF THEORY, 3/8 CFU; 2 HOURS OF PRACTICE, ¼ CFU)
INTERFERENCE: YOUNG’S EXPERIMENT; INTERFERENCE ON THIN FILMS; SINGLE AND DOUBLE SLIT DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION PATTERNS
(2 HOURS THEORY, ¼ CFU)








Teaching Methods
THE TEACHING IS ARTICULATED IN A SINGLE MODULE AND PROVIDES 72 HOURS OF ASSISTED TEACHING (9 CFU) DIVIDED BETWEEN
HOURS OF TEACHING IN THE FORM OF LESSONS AND HOURS OF EXERCISES.
TWO THIRDS OF THE LECTURE HOURS ARE THEORETICAL FRONTAL 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 TEACHING OBJECTIVES SHALL BE CERTIFIED BY PASSING AN EXAMINATION WITH ASSESSMENT IN THIRTIES.
THE EXAM INVOLVES THE PERFORMANCE OF A WRITTEN TEST AND AN ORAL TEST EVALUATED IN 30-TH. TO ACCESS THE ORAL EXAM THE STUDENT MUST PASS THE WRITTEN TEST WITH A MINIMUM GRADE OF 18/30.
SELF-EVALUATIVE (WRITTEN) TESTS WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE COURSE, WHICH WILL GIVE STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASSESS THEIR OWN LEARNING.
THE SELF-ASSESSMENT TESTS WILL NOT BE EVALUATED FOR THE PURPOSES OF PASSING THE EXAMINATION.
THE WRITTEN TESTS, LASTING 2 HOURS, CONSIST OF A MULTIPLE-CHOICE TEST THAT INVOLVES THE RESOLUTION OF EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS ON SUBJECTS OF THE TEACHING PROGRAMME. THE EXERCISES PROPOSED ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE RESOLVED DURING CLASS/PRACTICE HOURS
THE TEST SHALL TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE ORAL TEST AND BE CONSIDERED TO HAVE BEEN PASSED BY THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A MINIMUM SCORE OF 18/30. THE PURPOSE OF THE WRITTEN TEST IS TO VERIFY: THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEMS PROPOSED DURING THE COURSE, THE ABILITY TO APPLY THE THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE CORRECTLY, THE ABILITY TO FORMULATE THE APPROPRIATE APPROACH FOR THE SOLUTION OF THE PROPOSED PROBLEMS. DURING THE TEST IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO CONSULT THE NOTES, PHOTOCOPIES AND/OR TEXTS DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET; IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO USE THE PC OR SMART PHONE; IT IS ALLOWED TO USE THE SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR AND CONSULT THE TEXTBOOK ONLY.
THE ORAL TEST SHALL CONSIST OF A DISCUSSION OF NOT MORE THAN 40 MINUTES TO DETERMINE:
• 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: PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE, LOGICAL ABILITY - DEDUCTIVE AND SYNTHESIS, ABILITY TO ARGUE, AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT IN PROPOSING THE MOST APPROPRIATE APPROACH FOR
EXPLAIN WHAT IS REQUIRED.
THE FINAL GRADE, EXPRESSED IN THIRTIETH WITH POSSIBLE PRAISE, IS OBTAINED AS AN AVERAGE OF THE TWO TESTS.

THE MINIMUM ASSESSMENT LEVEL (18/30) IS ASSIGNED WHEN THE STUDENT DEMONSTRATES UNCERTAINTIES IN THE EXPOSURE OF THE REQUIRED TOPICS, AND SHOWS A LIMITED KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAIN PHYSICAL LAWS TREATED DURING THE COURSE.
THE MAXIMUM LEVEL (30/30) IS ASSIGNED WHEN THE STUDENT DEMONSTRATES A COMPLETE AND IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF THE TOPICS AND METHODS STUDIED WITH A CLEAR EXPOSITION OF THEM.
THE HONOURS MAY BE AWARDED TO STUDENTS WHO REACH A MAXIMUM MARK OF 30/30 AND DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF APPLYING INDEPENDENTLY THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS ACQUIRED IN CONTEXTS OTHER THAN THOSE PROPOSED IN CLASS.


Texts
TEXTBOOK:
J. WALKER, HALLIDAY-RESNICK FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS, SEVENTH EDITION, AMBROSIANA PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2015


RECOMMENDED READING:
J. W. KANE, M. M. STERNHEIM, APPLIED PHYSICS, LECTURES, EXAMPLES, MULTIPLE ANSWER QUESTIONS AND RESOLVED PROBLEMS, EMSI-INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL ISSUES, ROME

R. C. DAVIDSON, MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR AN INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS COURSE, EDISES SRL

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