- Docente: Marco Ridolfi
- Credits: 9
- SSD: FIS/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Technologies for the Environment and Materials (cod. 8515)
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
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.
Electrostatics, continuous currents, magnetostatics, time varying electromagnetic fields.
Geometrical optics: Snell laws, light propagation in presence of spherical mirrors and thin lenses. Wave optics: interference and diffraction of light, diffraction gratings.
Readings/Bibliography
D.Halliday, R.Resnick, J.Walker "Fundamentals of Physics", Wiley
For a detailed program, further informations and exercises see http://atmos.difa.unibo.it/mr/fifa/
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercises in classroom.
Assessment methods
The knowledge of elementary mechanics and electromagnetism will be verified with a written test were the student will have to solve some exercises at a level of difficulty comparable to that of those presented in the course and in the textbook. An oral exam will follow were also more "theoretical" questions, regarding the topics considered in the lectures, can be asked to the student.
Teaching tools
Blackboard, projector, pc, auxiliary material available on the web.
Links to further information
http://atmos.difa.unibo.it/mr/fifa/
Office hours
See the website of Marco Ridolfi