Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

LESSON 1: PHYSICAL GREATS AND VECTORS
Physical quantities and units of measurement; International System of Units (SI)
Scalar quantities and vector quantities; graphic representation of vector quantities
Hints to the algebra of the vectors: opposite vector, sum and difference between vectors, multiplication of a vector for a scalar, decomposition of a vector on two assigned directions; scalar product

LESSON 2: KINEMATICS
Material point; trajectory
Spatial and temporal reference systems
Motorcycles in one dimension: coordinates on the trajectory, equation of motion
Average speed and instantaneous speed (scalar)
Average acceleration and instantaneous acceleration (scalar)
Uniform motorcycle and uniformly varied bike

LESSON 3: DYNAMICS
Strength concept
Law of inertia (1st principle of dynamics)
Newton's law (2nd principle of dynamics) and definition of inertial mass of a body
Principle of action and reaction (3rd principle of dynamics)
Force of gravity; friction force
Work accomplished by a force; theorem of kinetic energy
Conservative forces and potential energy
Mechanical energy conservation theorem
Power

LESSON 4: STATIC STATISTICS OF RIGID BODIES
Condition of equilibrium of a free material point
Condition of equilibrium of a bound material point: binding reactions
Moment of a force or force compared to a point or an axis
Conditions of equilibrium of an extended rigid body; the lever

LESSON 5: DYNAMICS OF FLUIDS
Pressure and its units of measurement; density
Real fluids and ideal fluids
Flow equation (continuity eq.)
Bernoulli's theorem
Viscosity; Poiseuille's law

LESSON 6: TERMOLOGY
Definition of temperature; Celsius and Kelvin thermometric scales
Kinetic interpretation of temperature
Thermal balance
Definition of heat and its microscopic meaning
Thermal capacity and specific heat
Changes in status: melting temperature, boiling temperature, latent heat
Thermal expansion
Heat propagation: conduction, convection, radiation

LESSON 7: ELECTROSTATIC
Electric charge and its unit of measure; principle of conservation of the electric charge
Conductors and insulators
Electrization by rubbing, by contact and by induction
Coulomb's law in the vacuum and in a dielectric (in SI)
The concept of an electric field (e.g.
The electric field vector; representation of a c.e. through lines of force
Potential energy of a charge in an electrostatic field (c.e.s.)
Electrostatic potential
C.e.s. uniform and its potential
C.e.s and potential in the conductors; electrostatic screen
Flat capacitor: capacity
Polarization of dielectrics

LECTURE 8: ELECTRICAL CURRENT IN SOLIDS
Electric current
Current intensity and its unit of measure
First law of Ohm: resistance of a conductor
Second law of Ohm: resistivity
Joule effect

LESSON 9: MAGNETISM
Magnetic interaction. Magnetic field. Electricity and magnetism.
Magnetic force on a moving charge.
Magnetic force on a current-carrying conductor.
Magnetic field produced by a current.
Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction.

LESSON 10: GEOMETRIC OPTICS
Reflection and Refraction. Total reflection.
Mirrors.
Lenses.