- Docente: Enrico Gianfranco Campari
- Credits: 9
- SSD: FIS/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Enrico Gianfranco Campari (Modulo 1) Silvia Castellaro (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (cod. 8887)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Environmental Engineering (cod. 9198)
Learning outcomes
Basic concepts of classical mechanics and thermodinamics, with applications and exercises. Hits will be given to the limits of classical theory.
Course contents
Requirements/Prior knowledge. Basic concepts of trigonometry, analitical geometry and analysis are required in order to be able to attend with profit this course.
Contents. The nature of scientific knowledge. Measurements and errors. Frames of reference. Vectors. Cinematics: velocity and acceleration. Constant acceleration motion. Circular motion. Dynamics and Newton's laws. Inertia law. F=ma. Action-reaction law. Forces. Work and energy. Energy conservation. Momentum and angular momentum. Center of mass. Gravitation. Keplero's laws and their derivation. Special relativity. Light speed invariance. Time dilation and lenght contraction. Rigid bodies and their motion. Thermodinamic: temperature; first and second principle. Kinetic theory of gases.
Readings/Bibliography
1) C. Mencucci, V. Silvestrini
FISICA Meccanica e termodinamica
Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
ISBN 978-88-08-18649-2
2) Giancoli Fisica 1 (2nd edition)
Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
ISBN 978-88-08-18270-8
3) C. Guidorzi, A. Zanzi Problemi di fisica generale 1
Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
ISBN 978-88-08-28001-5Teaching methods
Lessons, exercises and demostrations.
Assessment methods
A written examination with 2-3 problems regarding the course contents to be solved in 2 h.
Teaching tools
Oral lessons with exercises and practical demonstrations of electromagnetic phenomena.
Office hours
See the website of Enrico Gianfranco Campari
See the website of Silvia Castellaro