Textbooks. Recommended books to be chosen by the student:
1) Serway & Jewett: Principi di Fisica, vol. 1. Editore: Edises
2) Mencuccini, Silvestrini: Fisica I: Meccanica Termodinamica- Corso di fisica per facoltà scientifiche. Editore: Liguori
3) Mazzoldi, Nigro, Voci: Fisica I, vol 1. Editore: Edises
Note: Other university level books can be used. It is appropriate consult the teacher on the adequacy of the text.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: Foundation of mechanics, thermodynamics and waves.
Competence acquired: Capability of solving elementary problems of mechanics and thermodynamics.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): Modelling physics processes by means of mathematical schemes
Prerequisites
Courses recommended: Matematica 1
Teaching Methods
Lessons, examples and exercises
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
Introductory remarks and mathematical complements
Spatial coordinates, vectors and related operations, foundamental quantities. Definition of physical units.
Kinematics of the mass point
One dimensional motion: Definition of velocity and acceleration.
Two dimensional motion: Definition of velocity and acceleration. Trajectory. Circular motion. Kinematics quantities in a curvilinear trajectory.
Dynamics of the mass point.
Force as a vector. First Second and Third law of Newton. Equilibrium. Motion with different forces applied: constant, elastic, viscouseos. Pendulum. Motion and forces in two dimensions.
Energy and work.
Definition of mechanical work. Kinetic energy theorem. Definition of power. Conservative forces, potential energy and mechanical energy conservation.
Mechanics of systems and universal gravitation
Linear momentum and its conservation. Collisions in one dimension : elastic and anelastic cases. Center of mass. First cardinal equation of dynamics. Angular and force momenta. Second cardinal equation of dynamics.
Angular momentum conservation. Rigid body: equilibrium, kinematics, rotation with fixed axis. Rotational kinetic energy, moment of inertia.
Universal gravitation law. Keplero laws.
Fluid mechanics
Pressure. Static of fluid and related theorems.
Dynamics of fluids, ideal fluid. Bernoulli theorem and its applications.
Thermodynamics
Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law. Temperature. Ideal gas temperature. Equation of state of an ideal gas. Molecular interpretation of temperature. Law of energy equipartition.
Thermodynamic transformations. Specific heat. First law of thermodynamics. Phase transitions and latent heat. Van der Waals equation. Umidity. Heat transmission.
The second law of thermodynamics: Kelvin Planck and Clausius formulation. Carnot theorem. Outline of Entropy
Waves
Impulsive waves of a string. Trasversal and longitudinal waves. Waves in solid and liquids.
Sinusoidal waves, wavelength, frequency, wavenumber. Doppler effect. D’Alembert equation, travelling and stationary waves.
Vibrating strings. Interference and beats. Outline of energy and power of sinuisodal wave.