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PHYSICS I

CARLO BARONE PHYSICS I

0512400011
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY "ADOLFO ZAMBELLI"
EQF6
CHEMISTRY
2024/2025

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2023
SPRING SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
540LESSONS
224EXERCISES
224LAB
ANTONIO CAPOLUPO T Curriculum
CARLO BARONE Curriculum
ExamDate
FISICA I12/02/2025 - 11:00
FISICA I12/02/2025 - 11:00
Objectives
THE TEACHING OF PHYSICS 1 REPRESENTS THE FIRST APPROACH TO MECHANICS AND GEOMETRIC OPTICS.
THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE IS TO FAMILIARIZE THE STUDENTS WITH THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, TO DEVELOP THEIR ABILITY TO APPLY MATHEMATICAL TOOLS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF PHYSICS, TO EXERCISE THEIR CRITICAL THINKING AND REASONING SKILLS, AND TO PROVIDE CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES THAT, ALTHOUGH RELATED TO THE KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF PARTICLES AND RIGID BODIES, ARE FUNDAMENTAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANY OTHER SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE.
IN ADDITION, THE BASIC OF THE THEORY OF ERRORS, OF THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS, OF THE COMBINATORIAL CALCULUS, OF THE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS, AND OF THE STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF MEASUREMENT RESULTS WILL BE PROVIDED.

THE KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED FROM THIS TEACHING INCLUDES:
• QUANTITIES AND TECHNIQUES TO DESCRIBE THE MOTION OF A PARTICLE IN ONE OR MORE DIMENSIONS;
• BASICS OF VECTOR, DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS;
• THE CONCEPT OF FORCE AND THE MAIN TYPES OF FORCES;
• THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DYNAMICS;
• CONCEPTS SUCH AS ENERGY, MOMENTUM AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM;
• USAGE OF CONSERVATION LAW;
• CONCEPTS AND QUANTITIES RELATED TO THE SYSTEMS OF MANY PARTICLES;
• FUNDAMENTALS OF CINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF THE RIGID BODY;
• FUNDAMENTALS OF STATICS;
• PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS AND EQUATIONS OF FLUID STATICS AND FLUID DYNAMICS;
• DESCRIPTION OF OSCILLATORY MOTION;
• LOWS OF GEOMETRICAL OPTICS AND OPERATION OF OPTICAL TOOLS, SUCH AS MIRRORS AND LENSES.

THE MAIN SKILLS (I.E. THE ABILITY TO APPLY THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE) WILL BE:
• SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO PHYSICAL PHENOMENA, WITH THE ABILITY TO QUANTIFY AND FIND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PHYSICAL QUANTITIES;
• SOLVING KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS PROBLEMS (OF PARTICLES AND RIGID BODIES) USING VECTOR, DIFFERENTIAL, AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS;
• SOLVING MECHANICS PROBLEMS (OF PARTICLES AND RIGID BODIES) USING CONSERVATION PRINCIPLES;
• DESCRIPTION OF PHENOMENA RELATED TO STATICS AND DYNAMICS OF FLUIDS;
• UNDERSTANDING AND DESCRIPTION OF OSCILLATORY PHENOMENA;
• UNDERSTANDING OF THE OPERATION OF SIMPLE OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;
• ABILITY TO COMBINE DATA AND CONCEPTS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF PHYSICS;
• ABILITY TO PRESENT ANY TOPIC COVERED IN THE COURSE CLEARLY AND RIGOROUSLY;
• COMPETENCE IN PERFORMING SIMPLE PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS, ABLE TO EVALUATE AND PROPERLY TO TREAT ERRORS AND ANALYZE STATISTICALLY THE OBTAINED EXPERIMENTAL DATA.

AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT: THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
• DEVELOP SKILLS TO APPLY MATHEMATICAL TOOLS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF PHYSICS.
• USE CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES THAT ARE FUNDAMENTAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANY SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE BEYOND PHYSICS.
• STATISTICALLY ANALYZE EXPERIMENTAL DATA.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS: THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
• DESCRIBE AND INTERPRET PHENOMENA OF MECHANICS, STATICS AND DYNAMICS OF FLUIDS, AND GEOMETRIC OPTICS, USING CORRECT MATHEMATICAL METHODS.
• PRESENT ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE USING APPROPRIATE SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE, BOTH IN WRITTEN AND ORAL FORM.
LEARNING ABILITY: THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
• UPDATE KNOWLEDGE OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS;
• UNDERSTAND AND INTERPRET BIBLIOGRAPHIC TEXTS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS.
Prerequisites
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BASIC NOTIONS OF TRIGONOMETRY, ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS FOR THE FUNCTIONS OF ONE VARIABLE IS REQUIRED.

Contents
1. SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT. VECTOR ALGEBRA. KINEMATICS OF THE MATERIAL POINT: POSITION, DISPLACEMENT, SPEED, ACCELERATION, THE LOWS OF MOTION, MOTIONS IN A STRAIGHT LINE, PROJECTILE MOTION, CIRCULAR MOTION (14 HOURS).
2. DYNAMICS OF THE MATERIAL POINT: INERTIA PRINCIPLE, INERTIAL AND NON-INERTIAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS. SECOND LAW OF DYNAMICS, QUANTITY OF MOTION, IMPULSE, WEIGHT FORCE, FRICTION, TENSION, VINCOLAR REACTIONS, ELASTIC FORCES AND LINEAR HARMONIC OSCILLATOR, KINETIC ENERGY AND WORK, CONSERVATIVE FORCES, POTENTIAL ENERGY, CONSERVATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY, ANGULAR MOMENTUM AND MOMENTUM OF A FORCE (20 HOURS).
3. DYNAMICS OF MATERIAL POINT SYSTEMS: ACTION AND REACTION PRINCIPLE, PAIR OF FORCES, CARDINAL EQUATIONS OF DYNAMICS, CONSERVATION OF THE QUANTITY OF MOTION AND OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM, MASS CENTER, THEOREM OF MASS CENTER, COLLISIONS (10 HOURS).
4. RIGID BODIES: MOMENTUM OF INERTIA, HUYGENS-STEINER THEOREM, KINETIC ENERGY, ANGULAR MOMENT AND EQUATION OF THE MOTION OF A RIGID BODY ROTATING AROUND A FIXED AXIS, STATIC AND EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS, EQUILIBRIUM UNDER THE ACTION OF THE GRAVITY, GRAVITATION (16 HOURS).
5. PHASES OF MATTER. PRESSURE IN FLUIDS. ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AND RELATIVE PRESSURE. PRINCIPLE OF PASCAL. PRINCIPLE OF ARCHIMEDE. CAPACITY AND EQUATION OF CONTINUITY. BERNOULLI EQUATION (2 HOURS).
6. GEOMETRIC OPTICS. RAYS OF LIGHT. REFLECTION. PLAN AND SPHERICAL MIRRORS. REFRACTION INDEX. SNELL'S LAW. TOTAL REFLECTION. OPTICAL FIBERS. THIN LENSES. THE EQUATION OF THIN LENSES. COMBINATION OF LENSES. MICROSCOPE. TELESCOPE (2 HOURS).
7. INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF ERRORS. EXPERIMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS. COMBINATORIAL CALCULUS. PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS. STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF THE RESULTS OF THE MEASUREMENTS (16 HOURS).
8. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS (8 HOURS).
Teaching Methods
THE TEACHING PROVIDES A TOTAL OF 88 HOURS OF LESSONS, CORRESPONDING TO 9 CFU. THESE HOURS ARE DISTRIBUTED IN 64 HOURS (CORRESPONDING TO 7 CFU) OF FRONTAL LESSONS AND 24 HOURS (2CFU) OF LABORATORY ACTIVITY. ABOUT THE HALF OF THE FRONTAL LESSONS, FOCUSED ON THE THEORY, WILL BE AIMED AT THE LEARNING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND GEOMETRIC OPTICS. THE REMAINING PART WILL BE MORE FOCUSED ON THE EXERCISES AND WILL HAVE THE PURPOSE OF ILLUSTRATING PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS AND OF DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESOLUTION OF PROBLEMS OF MECHANICS AND GEOMETRIC OPTICAL THROUGH THE USE OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS.
Verification of learning
THE FINAL EXAM CONSISTS IN A WRITTEN EXAMINATION FOLLOWED BY AN ORAL EXAMINATION ON THE TOPICS OF THE COURSE, INCLUDING THE DISCUSSION OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, IN ORDER TO VERIFY THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TOPICS STUDIED.
IT IS ALSO REQUESTED THAT THE STUDENT EXPOSES IN EXHAUSTIVE WAY AND THAT HE SHOWS CRITICAL AND AUTONOMOUS JUDGMENT.
THE EVALUATION IS IN THIRTY. IN ORDER TO BE ADMITTED TO TAKE THE ORAL EXAM, THE STUDENT MUST HAVE OBTAINED A SUFFICIENT EVALUATION (18) IN THE WRITTEN TEST.
THE WRITTEN EXAM CONSISTS IN THE RESOLUTION OF 3 OR MORE EXERCISES OF MECHANICS AND GEOMETRIC OPTICS.
THE FINAL VOTE IS IN THIRTY. THE EXAM IS PASSED WHEN, ONCE PASSED THE WRITTEN EXAMINATION, THE VOTE OF THE ORAL PRESENTATION IS AT LEAST 18/30.
THE MINIMUM EVALUATION LEVEL (18) IS ASSIGNED WHEN THE STUDENT HAS A SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE OF THEORETICAL CONTENTS AND HE SHOWS A SUFFICIENT CAPACITY TO CONNECT THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: DYNAMICS OF THE MATERIAL POINT AND OF SYSTEMS OF MATERIAL POINTS, RIGID BODIES, FLUID AND GEOMETRICAL OPTICS.
THE MAXIMUM LEVEL (30) IS ATTRIBUTED WHEN THE STUDENT SHOWS A COMPLETE AND DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF THE THEORETICAL CONTENTS AND HE SHOWS A NOTABLE CAPACITY TO CONNECT THE ANALYZED TOPICS.
30 WITH LAUD IS ATTRIBUTED WHEN THE CANDIDATE PROVIDES A SIGNIFICANT MASTERY OF THE CONTENT OF THE PROGRAM AND HE EXHIBITS TO KNOW THE ARGUMENTS WITH REMARKABLE VOCABULARY AND ABILITY OF AUTONOMOUS PROCESSING.
Texts
D. HALLIDAY, R. RESNICK, J. WALKER, “FONDAMENTI DI FISICA”, CEA-ZANICHELLI
P. MAZZOLDI, M. NIGRO, C.VOCI, “FISICA” VOL. I, EDISES
J.R. TAYLOR, INTRODUZIONE ALL'ANALISI DEGLI ERRORI, ZANICHELLI, 2000.
NOTES GIVEN DURING THE COURSE
More Information
THE STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO CONTACT THE TEACHER FOR MEETINGS (ALSO OUTSIDE THE RECEPTION TIMES) FOR FURTHER CLARIFICATION OF THE COURSE TOPICS.
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