Teacher

prof. Carlo DEL PAPA

Credits

12 CFU

Language

Italian

Objectives

In this course the student will acquire the basic knowledge of classical and relativistic mechanics and of thermodynamics. Electrostatics and magnetism will also be studied in great depth. The connection between mechanics and fundamental forces will be explored in a good number of mechanical problems involving electromagnetic forces thus it will become possible to explain some of the important experiments of classical and modern physics. At the end of the class, the student will be capable of solving problems on all the subject studied.

Acquired skills

Unavailable.

Lectures and exercises (topics and specific content)

Classical Mechanics: classical and relativistic mechanics; kinematics of material points and solid bodies; relativistic kinematics; dynamics of material points and solid bodies; relativistic dynamics; conservation laws; gravitation laws; Kepler’s problem; applications to various problems of modern and classical physics (25 hours).
Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law; formulation of the laws of electrostatics in integral and local form (25 hours).
Magnetism: Biot - Savart law; formulation of the laws of magnetostatics in integral and local form (25 hours).
Thermodynamics and gas theory: kinetic theory of gases, Boltzmann – Maxwell statistics; first and second principle of thermodynamics (25 hours).
Labs (8 hours).

References

- Lecture notes on Internet

Type of exam

Written and oral