LABORATORY OF PHYSICS I

Claudio Guarcello LABORATORY OF PHYSICS I

0512600014
DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA "E.R. CAIANIELLO"
EQF6
PHYSICS
2019/2020

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2017
ANNUALE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
864LESSONS
448LAB
Objectives
HOW TO APPLY THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD. DEALING WITH THE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY WITH STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES.
TO PERFORM EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SIMPLE PHENOMENA IN MECHANICS, THERMOLOGY AND GEOMETRICAL OPTICS. ESTIMATING STATISTICALLY THE UNCERTAINTY (SIMPLE OR COMBINED) IN PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS. TO SCHEDULE THE LAB WORK AND CARRY ON AS SCHEDULED. COLLABORATING IN A TEAM.
Prerequisites
ELEMENTARY CALCULUS.
Contents
THEORY (64 HOURS)
ELEMENTARY PROBABILITY THEORY. DISTRIBUTION OF DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES. CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS. BERNOULLI VARIABLES. BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION POISSON DISTRIBUTION. NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. MATHEMATICAL EXPECTATION OF A RANDOM VARIABLE. DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEAN AND THE CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM. INTRODUCTION TO POINT ESTIMATE: UNBIASED, MINIMAL VARIANCE AND ROBUST ESTIMATORS. THE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATED FROM A STATISTICAL APPROACH. COMBINED UNCERTAINTY EVALUATED STATISTICALLY. BEST ESTIMATE FROM MEASUREMENTS WITH DIFFERENT UNCERTAINTY.
COMBINATION OF MEASUREMENT WHOSE UNCERTAINTY WAS ESTIMATED WITH BOTH STATISTICAL AND NON STATISTICAL METHODS. GEOMETRICAL OPTICS AND FERMAT PRINCIPLE.
REFRACTION PLANE. PRISM. MIRRORS. REFRACTION SPHERICAL SURFACE. THIN LENS.
LINEAR AND ANGULAR MAGNIFICATION. OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS.

LABORATORY:(48 HOURS)
MEASUREMENT OF A GAUSSIAN VARIABLE TO VERIFY THE VALIDITY OF THE CLT
MEASUREMENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION CONSTANT FROM THE OSCILLATION PERIOD OF A SIMPLE PENDULUM
MEASUREMENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION CONSTANT WITH AN INCLINED PLANE
STATIC AND DYNAMIC METHODS TO MEASURE THE MOMENTUM OF INERTIA OF A CYLINDER
MEASUREMENT OF FOCAL LENGTH OF THIN LENS.
MEASUREMENTS OF REFRACTION INDEX OF WATER.
MEASUREMENTS OF DEVIATION ANGLE IN PRISM.
MEASUREMENTS OF SPECIFIC HEAT OF METAL.
MEASUREMENTS OF CONVERSION FACTOR JOULE/CALORIE
STUDY OF GAS LAWS BY USING A GAS THERMOMETER.
Teaching Methods
LECTURES AND LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
Verification of learning
EVALUATION OF LABORATORY REPORTS
FINAL WRITTEN TEST
FINAL ORAL TEST
Texts
G. CANNELLI, "METODOLOGIE SPERIMENTALI IN FISICA", EDISES (NAPOLI)
J.R. TAYLOR, "INTRODUZIONE ALL'ANALISI DEGLI ERRORI SPERIMENTALI", ZANICHELLI (BOLOGNA)
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