- Docente: Maria Pia Morigi
- Credits: 5
- SSD: FIS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (cod. 0482)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at giving to the students the basic knowledge of Physics applied to Cultural Heritage diagnostics. The students will learn the physical principles at the basis of the most important physical methodologies for Cultural Heritage.
Course contents
- Ondulatory motion. Mathematical description of waves.
- Mechanical and electromagnetic waves.
- Sound waves. Production and detection of ultra-sounds. Applications of ultra-sounds in the field of Cultural Heritage.
- Electromagnetic spectrum. Visible light.
- Ondulatory optics. Geometric optics. Reflection and refraction from plane surfaces. Refractive spherical surfaces. Thin lenses.
- The human eye. Optical instruments. The magnifyng lens. The optical microscope. Polarization of light.
- Transmission and scanning electron microscope. Applications of TEM and SEM in the field of Cultural Heritage.
- Radioactive decay. Alpha, beta and gamma disintegration. Exponential decay of a radioactive isotope. Average life and half life.
- Outline of interactions of charged particles with matter.
- Production of X-rays. The functioning of an X-ray tube. X-ray spectrum. The interactions of X-rays with matter. Linear and mass attenuation coefficients.
- X-ray applications in the field of Cultural Heritage.
- The radiographic image: formation and recording. The radiographic film. Characteristic curve.
- X-ray tomography: development in tomographic scanners. Fan Beam Tomography and Cone Beam Tomography.
- Digital image acquisition systems. Charge Coupled Detectors (CCD). Analog to digital converter (ADC). Colour CCD.
Outline of multispectral imaging techniques.
Readings/Bibliography
- M Matteini, A Moles. Scienza e Restauro. Nardini Editore, Firenze, 1993.
- A. Castellano, M. Martini, E. Sibilia. Elementi di Archeometria. Casa Editrice Egea, Milano, 2002.
- Copies of transparency films.
Teaching methods
Lectures and tutorials.
Assessment methods
Oral examination with the aim of assessing the basic knowledge of the most important physical methodologies for Cultural Heritage.
Teaching tools
Transparency film projector, video-projector and PC.
Office hours
See the website of Maria Pia Morigi