Frontal instruction.
INTRODUCTION
-) Physical description tools
Physical quantities, dimensions, units of measurement, coordinate systems
-) Vectors
Generality, operations on vectors (sum, difference, the product of a vector for a scalar, inner product, cross product), components of a vector, derivative and integral of a vector
MECHANICS
-) Particle kinematics.
velocity, acceleration, uniform linear motion, uniformly accelerated linear motion, free fall and projectile motion
-) Particle dynamics
Newton's first law, inertial mass, conservation of momentum, force, Newton's second law, resultant of forces, equilibrium, Newton's third law, friction forces, inclined plane
-) Mechanical energy and conservative systems
Work, power, kinetic energy, potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy
-) Collisions and systems of material points
Impulse, elastic collision, inelastic and completely inelastic collision, motions with variable mass, points systems, the center of mass of a particles system and its motion
-) Rigid body and rotational mechanics
Rigid body and its center of mass, rotational kinematics, rotational vectorial magnitudes, the moment of a force, stationary rotation, the moment of inertia, Huygens-Steiner theorem, angular momentum, combined motions of translation and rotation
-) Elasticity
Hooke's law, the elasticity of volume and form, relations between elastic constants
-) Oscillations
Simple harmonic motion, mass-spring system, simple pendulum, physical pendulums, damped harmonic oscillator, forced harmonic oscillator
THERMODYNAMICS
-) Temperature and heat
Thermometry, calorimetry, the first law of thermodynamics, thermal capacity and latent heat, heat transmission
-) Ideal and real gases
Laws of gases and equation of state of ideal gases, transformations of a gas and work, real gases, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, kinetic theory of gases
-) Entropy
Thermal machines, the ideal machine of Carnot, the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, irreversible processes, statistical interpretation of entropy
1. Mazzoldi, Nigro, Voci – Elementi di Fisica - Meccanica e Termodinamica - EdiSES - Seconda Edizione (in italian)
Further Books:
2. Halliday, Resnick, Walker – Fundamentals of Physics - John Wiley & Sons Inc (in english)
3. Mazzoldi, Nigro e Voci, Fisica – Volume I - EdiSES - Seconda Edizione (in italian)