- Docente: Marco Cuffiani
- Credits: 3
- SSD: FIS/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Natural Sciences (cod. 0105)
Learning outcomes
To provide the students with the fundamental laws of introductory physics and the basic principles in the analysis of experimental data.
Course contents
Kinematics; Newton's laws of dynamics; statics of a rigid body; Kepler's laws and universal gravitation; statics and dynamics of ideal fluids; viscosity; heat and temperature; the ideal gas law; specific heat; the first law of thermodynamics and the conservation of energy; the second law of thermodynamics; entropy; basic principles in the statistical analysis of experimental data; laboratory sessions (measure of the density and the viscosity of a liquid, measure of the specific heat of a solid).
Readings/Bibliography
D. Giancoli: 'FISICA', C.E.A. (Milano)
G. Valdre' e U. Valdre': 'MISURE E COMPLEMENTI DI FISICA', C.L.U.E.B. (Bologna)
Teaching methods
Lectures and laboratory sessions.
Assessment methods
Written and oral examinations.
Office hours
See the website of Marco Cuffiani