- Docente: Nico Lanconelli
- Credits: 2
- SSD: FIS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)
Course contents
- Introduction of the mathematical and physics elements necessary for the class. Units of measurement systems. Scalar and vector quantities. Operations between vectors.
- Static: forces and equilibrium. Newton's laws. Examples of forces. Components of a force. Moment of a force. Conditions of equilibrium. Center of gravity. Applications in physiotherapy.
- Kinematics and dynamics. Reference systems. One-dimensional and two-dimensional motion. Laws of dynamics. Quantity of motion and impulse.
- Energy. Work and energy. Kinetic and potential energy. Conservation of energy. Efficiency, power and metabolism.
- Fluids. Pressure. Properties of fluids. Pascal's law. Archimedes’ principle. Dynamics of fluids. Bernoulli’s principle. Real fluids. Heart power and circulatory system.
- Gases and liquids. Temperature and ideal gas law. Surface tension. Solutions. Applications to the respiratory system.
- Solids. Stretching, compression and Hooke's law. Young's form.
- Heat and thermodynamics. Specific heat and thermal capacity. First law of thermodynamics. Heat propagation. Thermoregulation of the human body. Thermodynamic transformations.
- Electrical phenomena. Electric charge and Coulomb force. Electric field, electrical potential. Electric dipole. Electrical phenomena and cells.
Office hours
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