- Docente: Ignazio Giacomo Massa
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Telecommunications Engineering (cod. 0046)
Learning outcomes
Classical mechanics and electromagnetism.
Course contents
Thermodynamics and Waves
The statistical method. Macroscopic coordinates. Thermal and thermodynamic equilibrium. Temperature. Thermodynamic work. Reversibile and irreversibile transformations. Real and ideal gases. Internal energy. The first law of thermodynamics. Heat. Thermal capacity. Transformations of ideal gases.
Heat and work conversions. Thermostat. Thermal engines. The second law of thermodynamics. The Carnot cycle. Thermodynamic temperature. Clausius theorem. Entropy. Entropy and reversibility.
The armonic oscillator. Damped and forced oscillations. Resonance. Wave propagation. Elastic waves in fluids and solids. The D'Alembert equation. Wave overlap. Beats. Phase and group velocities. Stationary waves. Plane and spherical waves. Electromagnetic waves. Energy and Poynting vector. Accelerate charges. Light dispersion and absorption. Elettromagnetic fields in dielectrics. Reflection and refraction. Wave interference. Diffraction and Huygens law. Polarization.
Assessment methods
Links to further information
http://ishtar.df.unibo.it/Uni/bo/ingegneria/all/massa/stuff/homepage.htm
Office hours
See the website of Ignazio Giacomo Massa