- Docente: Ivan Corazza
- Credits: 2
- SSD: FIS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Midwifery (cod. 6064)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)
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from Oct 15, 2024 to Nov 07, 2024
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will know the fundamentals of mechanics, thermology and thermodynamic, electromagnetism, waves and oscillations and their main applications to biological phenomena and medical instrumentations and procedures.
Course contents
Basic math skills (online, in italian language)
Scientific method (webinar)
Fundamental physical quantities, measurement units and errors (webinar)
Scalar quantities and vectors (webinar)
Kinematics (speed, velocity, acceleration) (webinar)
Newton’s laws of motion, dynamics (force and acceleration),
Kinetic and Potential Energy
Equilibrium
Rotational motion
Matter (solid, liquid and gas)
Hydrostatic pressure
Superficial tension and related phenomena
Viscosity and its consequences
Laminar flow
Turbulent flow
Sphere falling in a fluid (Stokes Law)
Not-viscous fluids
Solutions and concentrations
Diffusion
Osmosis
Thermology and thermodynamics
Heat transfer
Temperature
Gas
Ideal gas and equation of state
Thermodynamic processes
Kinetic theory of gases
Entropy
Electromagnetism
Electric charge and field
Energy and potential difference
Electric current (Ohm’s laws)
Joule heating
Magnetic field
Movement of charges in a magnetic field (Lorentz Force)
Time-varying electromagnetic fields
Electrical transformer
Varying currents and potential differences
AC and DC adapters
Bioelectrical signals and their acquisition
ECG and related problems
Electrical safety for patients and operators
Defibrillator
Oscillations and wave
Sound and sound perception
Geometrical Optics (lens and eye)
Fourier’s Theorem
Pressure measurements
Atoms and atomic models
Photoelectric effect
RX production
Electromagnetic radiation and its interactions with matter
Laser
Atom’s nucleus
Radioactivity and its laws
Ionizing radiations and their interactions with matter
Ionizing radiations in hospital
Dosimetry (basic concepts)
Readings/Bibliography
Romano Zannoli, Ivan Corazza
Elementi di fisica (nuova edizione)
Società Editrice Esculapio
Teaching methods
The course is made up of lectures with the support of Power Point presentations. The course adheres to the innovative teaching project promoted by the University of Bologna and, specifically, includes a part of supplementary digital teaching.
Before starting the course, students are warmly invited to take the online mini-course in mathematics made available on the Almamathematica spaces and the introductory physics lessons.
These courses are available for all the people both with unibo credentials and external users with SPID (Italian Digital Identity).
These topics should already be known by the student (being part of the exam program for the entrance test to the health professions) and they are fundamental for understanding physics. Online lessons are not mandatory, but strongly recommended. The topics covered online will not be taken up again during the frontal hours and will be considered already known.
The purpose of this choice is to reduce the time spent in the classroom on retrieving concepts that should already be known and focus on applications of physics to physiology, clinics and medical instrumentation, which are of real interest to future healthcare professionals .
Assessment methods
The exam will be a multiple-choice quiz. An oral examination will be performed only if necessary. The final score will be weighted averaged with the scores of the other modules, to obtain the global grade.
Office hours
See the website of Ivan Corazza