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Physics
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Physics
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Academic year 2021/2022
- Course ID
- SCB0196
- Teacher
- Prof. Roberto Cirio (Coordinator)
- Year
- 1st year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 3
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- FIS/07 - fisica applicata (a beni culturali, ambientali, biologia e medicina)
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Written and oral
- Prerequisites
- Mathematics and Physics as learnt at College
- Propedeutic for
- Physics is not officially propedeutic for any other course. But I think it is very fair to say that the skills acquired in the Physics course allow the best assimilation of the concepts taught during the second year in the Physiology course, and in several other courses of the following years.
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The Student will acquire the tools of analysis necessary for a reasonable understanding of the physical phenomena involved in life sciences.
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Results of learning outcomes
The goal of Physics teaching is to be able to correctly analyze and solve a complex problem, as experienced in clinics every day. Being able to use the Scientific Method and to handle easily an order of magnitude calculations and factorization of solutions is the first goal. Once this is obtained, it is time to acquire the basics of all the physical laws that underlie medical phenomena. At the end of the teaching, Students will be able to use the physical laws and the mathematical tools all along most of the subjects that will be part of the Medicine and Surgery Course and Specialization School.
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Course delivery
The Course features formal lessons and exercise sessions:
- Each formal lesson will describe theory and applications. At the end of each formal lesson, exercises will be delivered to Students, to be solved at home and to be loaded on the Moodle platform (portfolio).
- Exercise sessions will feature a discussion about the exercises.
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Learning assessment methods
I very very strongly suggest you sit it as soon as possible (June/July or, AT LATEST, September). It is important that you sit Physics before starting the second year, so that you can take advantage of the things we learn and that you will use in the other Courses. The sooner, the better!
Suggestions to succeed at the Physics exam:
- study the Theory
- be sure to be able to apply Theory solving Exercises. See them on Moodle (activities, assignments, written tests of previous years).
Written exam: you can find on the Moodle of the Physics course examples of the written tests of last year. This way you can easily understand the flavour of the written test you will undergo.
If you succeed in the written test (that is, a grade equal to or higher than 18), you must sit the oral exam.
Oral exam: I will ask 3 questions (one of them on a subject chosen by you). The 3 questions will start describing things as usual (as an example, I might ask: "Talk about Surface tension.").
The final grade will be the mean value of the grade obtained at the written and the grade obtained at the oral.
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Support activities
At any time Students can ask for additional meetings (in the presence or via Webex) to work together on specific problems and items.
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Program
- Physics and physical measures, dimensional analysis and significant digits, conversions.
- Vectors.
- 2D kinematics.
- Newton's laws, friction, tension and pulleys, Springs and Hooke’s law.
- Work and energy.
- Momentum and impulse.
- Rotational kinematics.
- Biomechanics (torque, static equilibrium, levers, elasticity, stress and strain).
- Ideal and real fluids (Bernoulli’s theorem, applications, viscosity, hydrodynamic resistance, Stoke’s law, centrifuges).
- Molecular phenomena (surface tension, Laplace’s law, applications).
- Thermal physics (temperature, heat and work; conduction, convection, radiation; equation of state for gases; applications; kinetic theory of gases; the laws of thermodynamics).
- Diffusion and osmosis.
- Electrical phenomena (Coulomb’s law, electric field, electric potential, capacitance, electric currents and circuits, charge and discharge of a capacitor, applications).
- Magnetism, the cyclotron.
- Waves and sound, stationary waves, Doppler effect.
- Fourier, electromagnetic waves.
- Geometrical and physical optics (lenses, interference, diffraction).
- Basis of Radiation Protection, Application of radiation in medicine (X-ray production, interaction of electrons with matter, interaction of X-rays with matter, radiological images).
- Basis of Radiation Protection, Nucleus and radioactivity (nuclear decays, law of radioactive decay, interaction of radiation with matter, applications).
Suggested readings and bibliography
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IMPORTANT
If you already own a Physics book from the Secondary School, do ask me whether it is suitable for this Course
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