- Docente: Marco Prevedelli
- Credits: 9
- SSD: FIS/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Industrial Chemistry (cod. 8513)
Learning outcomes
In this course the student will learn the meaning of the main physical quantities, the relations among them and their defining units; the concepts of experimental uncertainty, error propagation and analysis of experimental data; the elementary mechanics of point and extended objects and the classical theory of electromagnetism in vacuum and matter; the basic notions of geometrical and wave optics.
Course contents
Prerequisites
Basically the syllabus of the Mathematics' course: algebra, elementari functions, integral and differential calculus, differential equations, linear algebra.
Course contents
Dimensional formulae and physical units; error propagation; scalar and vector fields;
Kinematics and dynamics for a point mass; dynamics of systems; angular momentum and rotating objects; harmonic motion; gravitation;
Electrostatics; DC currents; magnetostatics; time varying electromagnetic fields;
Geometrical optics. Interference
A detailed syllabus is available at course page on iol.unibo.it
Readings/Bibliography
D.Halliday, R.Resnick, J.Walker "Fundamentals of Physics", Wiley
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercises
Assessment methods
The knowledge of elementary mechanics and electromagnetism will be verified with a written text were the student will have to solve exercises at a level of difficulty comparable with that of those presented in the course and in the textbook. An oral exam might follow were also more "theoretical" questions can be presented to the student.
Teaching tools
Blackboard, chalk, eraser, when simultaneously available and of acceptable quality.
Office hours
See the website of Marco Prevedelli