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Francesco ROMEO PHYSICS

0512100003
COMPUTER SCIENCE
EQF6
COMPUTER SCIENCE
2024/2025

YEAR OF COURSE 3
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2017
AUTUMN SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
324LESSONS
324LAB
FRANCESCO ROMEO T Curriculum
Objectives
GENERAL OBJECTIVE:

THE COURSE INTRODUCES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM, PRESENTING THE TECHNICAL TERMINOLOGY AND THE NECESSARY MATHEMATICAL METHODS. STUDENTS WILL LEARN TO USE THESE SKILLS TO SOLVE SPECIFIC PROBLEMS, DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT JUDGEMENT IN IDENTIFYING APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF RELEVANT SITUATIONS. THE COURSE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVING COMMUNICATION SKILLS, TEACHING - THROUGH THE SUBJECT MATTER - HOW TO EXPRESS COMPLEX CONCEPTS CLEARLY AND RIGOROUSLY. THE COURSE WILL ENCOURAGE CONTINUOUS LEARNING AND THE ABILITIES OF FORMALIZATION AND ANALYSIS, WHICH ARE ALSO USEFUL IN PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:

THE STUDENT WILL:
- KNOW THE DISCIPLINARY FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM, SUCH AS NEWTON'S PRINCIPLES, MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, AND THE FUNDAMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF THESE THEORIES AIMED AT UNDERSTANDING THE REAL WORLD.
- HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF VECTOR ANALYSIS, LINEAR ALGEBRA, AND DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, AS USEFUL TOOLS FOR SOLVING PHYSICAL PROBLEMS.
- BE ACQUAINTED WITH DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS, SCIENTIFIC NOTATION, AND ERROR ANALYSIS.
- UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONCEPTS OF FORCE, MOTION, AND ENERGY, AS WELL AS THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE CONCEPTS OF ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THE OBSERVABILITY OF THE LATTER IN THE PHENOMENON OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION.


ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:

THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- TRANSLATE REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS INTO MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL MODELS, USING THE LAWS OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM.
- EXAMINE NON-TRIVIAL PHYSICAL SITUATIONS, IDENTIFYING THE RELEVANT VARIABLES AND APPLICABLE PHYSICAL LAWS.
- DEVELOP SOLUTIONS TO PHYSICS PROBLEMS, CORRECTLY APPLYING THE MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES PRESENTED DURING THE COURSE.
- SOLVE SIMPLE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND USE VECTOR CALCULUS TOOLS TO ANALYZE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PROPERTIES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS OR THE KINEMATICS/DYNAMICS OF BODIES.
- BE CAPABLE OF INTERPRETING EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL RESULTS, EVALUATING HYPOTHESES, AND FORMULATING PREDICTIONS BASED ON THE STUDIED PHYSICAL MODELS.

MAKING JUDGEMENT:

THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENT OR SIMULATION, IDENTIFYING ANY ANOMALIES OR THEORETICAL CONFIRMATIONS.
- DISCERN BETWEEN DIFFERENT MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL TECHNIQUES, CHOOSING THE MOST SUITABLE ONES FOR SOLVING SPECIFIC PROBLEMS.
- SELECT RELEVANT INFORMATION FROM A WIDE RANGE OF SOURCES, DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN SIGNIFICANT AND IRRELEVANT DATA FOR A SPECIFIC APPLICATION.


COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- COMMUNICATE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CONCEPTS WITH PRECISION AND CORRECTNESS, BOTH IN WRITTEN AND ORAL FORM.
- REPRESENT AND COMMUNICATE, THROUGH TEXTS OR VIRTUAL TOOLS, RESULTS OF RESEARCH OR PERSONAL ANALYSES, USING GRAPHS, DIAGRAMS, AND PRESENTATIONS TO ILLUSTRATE DATA AND THEORIES.
- ARTICULATE SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS CLEARLY AND CONVINCINGLY, ADJUSTING THE LANGUAGE TO THE AUDIENCE AND CONTEXT, BOTH IN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTS.
- COLLABORATE EFFECTIVELY IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS, SHOWING THE ABILITY TO LISTEN AND EXCHANGE IDEAS, AS WELL AS TO PRESENT THEIR OWN POSITIONS.


LEARNING SKILLS:

THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- USE TRADITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC TOOLS AND COMPUTER RESOURCES FOR ANALYSIS/ARCHIVING TO RESEARCH AND CRITICALLY EVALUATE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION.
- UNDERSTAND AND INTERPRET COMPLEX TEXTS IN THE CONTEXT OF TECHNICAL-SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES.
- CONTINUALLY UPDATE THEIR KNOWLEDGE USING TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE AND DEVELOP A PERSONAL STRATEGY FOR INDEPENDENT LEARNING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
- APPLY THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE TO FORMULATE HYPOTHESES AND CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS, TO TACKLE NEW PROBLEMS AND OPERATE IN UNFAMILIAR CONTEXTS.


Prerequisites
A SOLID UNDERSTANDING OF FUNDAMENTAL MATHEMATICAL TOPICS COVERED IN HIGH SCHOOL AND FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY COURSES IS REQUIRED FOR ENROLLMENT IN THIS COURSE. SPECIFICALLY, KNOWLEDGE OF ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, METHODS FOR SOLVING FIRST- AND SECOND-DEGREE EQUATIONS AND INEQUALITIES, ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONS AND THEIR PROPERTIES (SUCH AS LOGARITHMIC AND EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS), AS WELL AS TRIGONOMETRY, IS REQUIRED. IN ADDITION, A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS OF CALCULUS IS NECESSARY.
Contents
INTRODUCTORY ELEMENTS: SCIENTIFIC METHOD, PHYSICAL OBSERVABLES AND THEIR UNITS, VECTOR ALGEBRA.

MECHANICS (24 HOURS: 16H THEORY + 8H APPLICATIONS): KINEMATICS. POSITION, DISPLACEMENT, SPEED, ACCELERATION. MOTION IN ONE AND TWO DIMENSIONS. THE CIRCULAR MOTION. THE DYNAMICS. THE NEWTON’S LAWS. SOME FUNDAMENTAL FORCE. THE PENDULUM AND THE EQUATION OF THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR. KINETIC ENERGY AND MECHANICAL WORK. KINETIC ENERGY THEOREM. POTENTIAL ENERGY. CONSERVATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY. CENTER OF MASS AND LINEAR MOMENTUM. ANGULAR MOMENTUM. NOTES ON THE DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES.

ELECTROMAGNETISM (24 HOURS: 16H THEORY + 8H APPLICATIONS): ELECTRIC CHARGE. THE ELECTRIC FIELD. THE GAUSS THEOREM. ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL AND ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL ENERGY. THE CAPACITOR. THE ELECTRIC CURRENT. THE ELECTRIC RESISTANCE AND THE OHM’S LAWS. KIRCHHOFF'S LAWS AND ELECTRIC CIRCUITS. THE RC CIRCUIT. THE MAGNETIC FIELD. THE LORENTZ FORCE. MAGNETIC INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL CONDUCTORS. BIOT-SAVART LAW. AMPERE LAW. FARADAY LAW. MAXWELL EQUATIONS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES. ELEMENTARY CONCEPTS OF GEOMETRIC OPTICS.
Teaching Methods
THE COURSE IS ORGANIZED IN LECTURES EXPLAINING THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF MECHANICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM. EACH LECTURE IS DEVOTED TO THE THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION OF ONE OR MORE TOPICS FOLLOWED BY EXAMPLES AND APPLICATIONS.
Verification of learning
THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TEACHING OBJECTIVES IS CERTIFIED BY PASSING AN EXAM. EXAMINATION IS GRADED ACCORDING TO A SCALE RANGING FROM 0 TO 30, WITH 18 AS A PASS MARK. THE EXAM INCLUDES A WRITTEN TEST (WHICH MAY BE DIVIDED INTO TWO IN ITINERE TESTS) AND AN ORAL EXAM THAT TAKE PLACE ON DIFFERENT DAYS, ACCORDING TO A PRE-ESTABLISHED CALENDAR. ACCESS TO THE ORAL EXAM IS ALLOWED TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE PASSED THE WRITTEN TEST (PASS MARK: 15/30).
IN THE WRITTEN TEST THE STUDENT MUST DEMONSTRATE TO KNOW THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS, DISCUSSING AND SOLVING TWO PROBLEMS. THE STUDENT WILL BE EXPECTED TO DEMONSTRATE MASTERY OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS, THE ABILITY TO IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES, AND PRECISE USE OF TECHNICAL TERMINOLOGY. THE TEST HAS A DURATION OF TWO HOURS.
THE ORAL EXAM IS AIMING AT EVALUATING THE STUDENT'S ABILITY TO CRITICALLY DISCUSS SIMPLE SITUATIONS RELATED TO MECHANICS, ELECTROMAGNETISM OR OPTICS. THE ABILITY TO FORMULATE MODELS AND DISCUSS THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK PRESENTED DURING THE COURSE IS EVALUATED DURING THE ORAL EXAM. THE PRECISE AND APPROPRIATE USE OF TECHNICAL TERMINOLOGY IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE EVALUATION PROCESS. THE FINAL GRADE IS OBTAINED FROM THE AVERAGE PERFORMANCE IN THE WRITTEN TEST AND THE ORAL EXAM. THE MINIMUM PASSING GRADE FOR THE EXAM IS 18/30, CORRESPONDING TO A SUFFICIENT MASTERY OF THE ESSENTIAL CONCEPTUAL CORES OF THE DISCIPLINE AND RELATED BASIC APPLICATIONS.THE “LODE” (MAXIMUM GRADE WITH DISTINCTION) CAN BE GIVEN TO STUDENTS WHO OBTAIN A GRADE OF 30/30 AND SHOW THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO AUTONOMOUSLY USE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN CONTEXTS WHICH ARE NEW OR NOT DISCUSSED DURING THE COURSE.
THE EXAMS CAN BE TAKEN IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
(A) WRITTEN TESTS DURING THE COURSE (IN ITINERE WRITTEN TESTS) AND FINAL ORAL EXAM. STUDENTS ARE ADMITTED TO THE ORAL EXAM WITH A MINIMUM GRADE OF 15/30 ON EACH ONE OF THE IN ITINERE WRITTEN TESTS. STUDENTS WHO HAVE ACHIEVED AN AVERAGE GRADE OF AT LEAST 22/30 IN THE WRITTEN TESTS MAY REQUEST TO BE EXEMPTED FROM THE ORAL EXAM.
(B) PERIODIC WRITTEN TESTS WITH ORAL EXAM ACCORDING TO THE CALENDAR SET BY THE TEACHING COUNCIL (CONSIGLIO DIDATTICO) FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT TAKEN OR PASSED THE IN ITINERE WRITTEN TESTS. CANDIDATES WHO HAVE OBTAINED THE PASS MARK OF 15/30 ARE ADMITTED TO THE ORAL EXAM.
Texts
REFERENCE TEXT:
R. DE LUCA, F. ROMEO, FISICA IN 48 ORE, EDISES EDIZIONI, NAPOLI, 2023.
More Information
THE COURSE ATTENDANCE, ALTHOUGH NOT MANDATORY, IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
Lessons Timetable

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