PHYSICS

Daniele DE GRUTTOLA PHYSICS

0512800010
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY "ADOLFO ZAMBELLI"
EQF6
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
2024/2025

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2016
SPRING SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
756LESSONS
112LAB
Objectives
THE TEACHING PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL TOOLS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AND THE ASSOCIATED LAWS, THUS CONTRIBUTING TO THE INTERPRETATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE BEHAVIOR OF DIFFERENT BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
THE STUDENT WILL BE CONDUCTED TO LEARN THE BASICS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS AND TO ACQUIRE THE CAPABILITY TO DEAL WITH OF SIMPLE FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL PHENOMENA. THEY WILL DEVELOP PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS AND WILL BE PROVIDED WITH THE BASICS TO CARRY ON SIMPLE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WITH A FOCUS ON PHYSICAL QUANTITIES MEASUREMENT ALONG WITH THE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS OF COLLECTED DATA.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
THE TEACHING AIMS TO LET THE STUDENTS ASSIMILATE THE COURSE CONTENTS AND BECOME ABLE TO SOLVE SIMPLE PROBLEMS IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS, USE THE APPROPRIATE PHYSICS LAWS AND PROVIDE THE QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE PHENOMENA. AN ADDITIONAL AIM IS TO STIMULATE TEAMWORK IN THE LABORATORY AND THE ABILITY TO PERFORM MEASUREMENTS OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES, PROVIDE THE BEST ESTIMATE OF A PHYSICAL QUANTITY, AND EVALUATE UNCERTAINTIES.
COMMUNICATIVE ABILITY: THE COURSE WILL TRY TO PROVIDE THE ABILITY OF THE STUDENT TO EXPOSE IN A CLEAR AND RIGOROUS WAY THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE. AT THE END OF THE COURSE THE STUDENT HAS TO BE ABLE TO ENUNCIATE IN A CORRECT WAY DEFINITIONS AND THEOREMS CONCERNING THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE ITSELF.
AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT: THE STUDENTS ARE DRIVEN TO LEARN IN A CRITICAL AND RESPONSIBLE WAY ALL THE ARGUMENTS EXPOSED DURING CLASS LECTURES AND TO ENRICH HIS/HER ABILITIES OF JUDGMENT THROUGH THE STUDY OF THE DIDACTIC MATERIAL POINTED OUT BY THE TEACHER.
Prerequisites
BASICS OF ANALYSIS, ALGEBRA , GEOMETRY AND TRIGONOMETRY.
Contents
THE TEACHING INCLUDES BOTH LECTURES IN THE CLASSROOM AND LABORATORY ACTIVITIES.
HOURS OF LECTURES: 36, HOURS OF EXERCISES: 16, HOURS OF LABORATORY: 14
THE TEACHING CONTENTS INCLUDE:
INTRODUCTION SCIENTIFIC METHOD. UNITS OF MEASUREMENT. VECTOR ALGEBRA: DEFINITION OF VECTORS. OPERATIONS. SCALAR AND VECTOR PRODUCTS. (HOURS OF LECTURES: 4; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 2)
KINEMATIC: DEFINITION OF FUNDAMENTAL QUANTITIES. EQUATIONS OF MOTION. TRAJECTORY. LINEAR MOTION. BIDIMENSIONAL MOTIONS: PROJECTILE MOTION, CIRCULAR MOTION. SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION. (HOURS OF LECTURES: 4; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 3)
DYNAMICS OF A MATERIAL POINT: NEWTON'S LAWS. SOME FUNDAMENTAL FORCES, FRICTION, TENSION, CONSTRAINT FORCES. KINETIC ENERGY AND WORK WITH APPLICATIONS. ENERGY CONSERVATION LAWS. MOMENTUM. (HOURS OF LECTURES: 5; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 4)
DYNAMICS OF MATERIAL POINTS SYSTEM: CENTER OF MASS. THE EQUATIONS OF DYNAMIC OF MATERIAL POINTS SYSTEM. MOMENTUM CONSERVATION PRINCIPLE. (NOTES) (HOURS OF LECTURES: 2; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 0)
FLUID STATICS: STEVIN LAW. PRINCIPLES OF PASCAL AND ARCHIMEDES. (HOURS OF LECTURES: 2; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 0)
FLUID DYNAMICS (NOTES): STREAMLINES AND STREAMTUBES. BERNOULLI'S EQUATION WITH APPLICATIONS. (HOURS OF LECTURES: 2; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 0)
ELECROSTATIC: ELECTRIC CHARGE. COULOMB LAWS. ELECTRIC FIELD. ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL AND ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL ENERGY WITH APPLICATIONS. GAUSS THEOREM WITH APPLICATIONS. (HOURS OF LECTURES: 5; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 4)
CONDUCTORS. ELECTRICAL CAPACITY. SERIES AND PARALLEL CAPACITORS. ELECTRIC CURRENT. ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE. OHM'S LAW. SERIES AND PARALLEL RESISTORS. CIRCUITS AND KIRCHHOFF PRINCIPLES. RC CIRCUIT. (HOURS OF LECTURES: 3; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 0)
MAGNETOSTATIC: MAGNETIC FIELD. MAGNETIC FIELDS GENERATED BY THE CURRENT. ELEMENTARY LAW OF LAPLACE. AMPERE'S LAW. (HOURS OF LECTURES: 4; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 3)
ELECTROMAGNETISM: FARADAY INDUCTION LAW. INDUCTANCE. GEOMETRICAL OPTICS: ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM. (NOTES) (HOURS OF LECTURES: 2; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 0)
GEOMETRIC OPTICS: LIGHT RADIATION AND GEOMETRICAL APPROXIMATION (NOTES). SNELL LAW. THIN LENSES. OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS (MAGNIFYING GLASS, SIMPLE MICROSCOPE). (HOURS OF LECTURES: 3; HOURS OF EXERCISES: 0)

PHYSICS LABORATORY: GENERALITIES ON MEASURING INSTRUMENTS. MEASUREMENTS AND MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTIES. UNCERTAINTIES, RANDOM ERRORS, AND SYSTEMATIC ERRORS. ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE ERRORS. (HOURS: 1)
FUNDAMENTALS OF DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS. CONCEPT OF PROBABILITY. ERRORS AND UNCERTAINTIES. ERROR PROPAGATION: GENERAL FORMULA AND PROPAGATION FOR RANDOM AND INDEPENDENT ERRORS. PROPAGATION IN THE CASE OF GENERIC FUNCTIONS OF MULTIPLE VARIABLES. BASIC ELEMENTS IN THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF DATA. (HOURS: 2)
INDICATORS OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND DISPERSION. MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE. DEVIATION, VARIANCE, STANDARD DEVIATION, INTERQUARTILE RANGE (HOURS: 2)
DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS. NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. STANDARDIZED NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. CONCEPT OF COVARIANCE AND CONTRIBUTION TO ERROR PROPAGATION. (HOURS: 2)
LINEAR MODELS. METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION, WEIGHTED AND UNWEIGHTED. LINEARIZATION OF NON-LINEAR MODELS. USE OF SPREADSHEETS FOR DATA ANALYSIS (HOURS: 2)
LABORATORY EXPERIENCES (HOURS: 6)
Teaching Methods
THE TEACHING IS ORGANISED AS FOLLOWS :
•LESSONS AND EXERCISES IN CLASSROOM ON ALL THE ARGUMENTS OF THE COURSE (44 + 8 HOURS);
• 24 HOURS OF TUTORING;
•EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN THE LABORATORY (12 HOURS) WITH EXPERIENCES DESIGNED BY THE TEACHER AND CARRIED ON BY THE STUDENTS WORKING IN GROUPS OF 3-4 STUDENTS EACH. AT THE END OF EACH ACTIVITY EVERY STUDENT MUST SUBMIT A REPORT ON THE EXPERIENCE MADE, DESCRIBING OBJECTIVES, METHODOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS, DATA COLLECTED AND RELATED ANALYSIS.
Verification of learning
THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE COURSE OBJECTIVES WILL BE CERTIFIED BY A WRITTEN AND ORAL EXAM WITH GRADES ON A SCALE OF 30. THE EXAM INCLUDES A WRITTEN TEST WITH THE RESOLUTION OF SIMPLE EXERCISES, ONE ON MECHANICS, ONE ON ELECTROMAGNETISM, AND ONE ON DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS.
THE STUDENTS SUCCEEDING THE WRITTEN TEST (AT LEAST 18/30) WILL BE ADMITTED TO AN ORAL TEST WHERE THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND THE SKILLS DEVELOPED BY STUDENTS, IN BOTH THE THEORETICAL AND THE EXPERIMENTAL PART OF THE COURSE, WILL BE VERIFIED. FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL PART, A POSITIVE ASSESSMENT OF AT LEAST TWO OF THREE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, BOTH IN TERMS OF THE MEASUREMENTS TAKEN AND THE RELATED DATA ANALYSIS, WILL BE WORTH THREE POINTS IN THE FINAL GRADE. THEREFORE, THOSE WHO DO NOT PASS THE LABORATORY CAN ACHIEVE A MAXIMUM GRADE OF 27/30. THE LABORATORY MODULE IS VALID FOR ONE YEAR. NO INTERIM TESTS ARE SCHEDULED. NO INTERMEDIATE WRITTEN TESTS ARE FORESEEN.
Texts
JUST AN INDICATION OF FEW USEFUL REFERENCE TEXT BOOKS WHERE THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE ARE TREATED.

1) R. A. SERWAY, J. W. JEWETT JR. - PRINCIPI DI FISICA – EDISES.
2) D. HALLIDAY, R. RESNICK, J. WALKE - FONDAMENTI DI FISICA (VOLUME UNICO) - CASA EDITRICE AMBROSIANA.
3) E. RAGOZZINO - PRINCIPI DI FISICA- EDISES
4) A. LASCIALFARI, F. BORSA - PRINCIPI DI FISICA (PER INDIRIZZO BIOMEDICO E FARMACEUTICO) - EDISES
5) P. MAZZOLDI, M. NIGRO, C. VOCI – ELEMENTI DI FISICA VOL. I E II – EDISES

SUPPORT TEXT BOOK
1) R. C. DAVIDSON - METODI MATEMATICI PER UN CORSO INTRODUTTIVO DI FISICA - EDISES

FOR DATA ANALYSIS:
1) J. R. TAYLOR, "INTRODUZIONE ALL'ANALISI DEGLI ERRORI", SECONDA EDIZIONE, ZANICHELLI
2) G. FILATRELLA, P. ROMANO, "ELABORAZIONE STATISTICA DEI DATI SPERIMENTALI CON ELEMENTI DI LABORATORIO", SECONDA EDIZIONE, EDISES
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THE STUDENT WILL USE THE TEACHING MATERIAL (LECTURE NOTES, SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES, ETC.) AVAILABLE ON THE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
THE TEACHER IS AVAILABLE TO RECEIVE STUDENTS ON THE DAYS INDICATED IN THE TEACHER'S PAGE AND/OR ON REQUEST SENT BY EMAIL.
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