GENERAL PHYSICS I M - Z

Mechanics of a particle:

• Kinematics: motion in one, two, three dimensions

• Reference systems and related motions

• laws of dynamics

• force, work, kinetic energy

• momentum and impulse

• conservative forces, potential energy

• conservation theorems

• angular momentum

• moment of a force

• central forces

 

 

Mechanics of particle systems

• center of mass, reduced mass

• conservation of momentum

• conservation of angular momentum

• konig of theorems

• kinetic energy theorem

• elastic collisions and inelastic

 

 

Rigid body dynamics

• definition of rigid body

• rotations about a fixed axis

• moment of inertia

• Theorem of Huygens-Steiner

• pure rolling motion

• Angle and pulse time pulse

• ellipsoid of inertia

• gyroscope

• free rigid body

• static

 

Gravitation

• Kepler's laws

• law of universal gravitation

• inertial and gravitational mass

• gravitational field

• gravitational potential energy

• Gauss theorem

• calculation of the orbits

 

elastic properties of solids

• traction and compression

• Creep

• compressibility

• torsion balance

 

Oscillations and waves

• harmonic oscillator

• damped harmonic oscillator

• Forced harmonic oscillator

• resonance

• longitudinal and transverse waves

• Fourier analysis

• physical nature of sound

 

Mechanical properties of fluids

• statics of fluids: Stevin's law, Pascal, and Archimedes'

• fluid dynamics

• stationary regime and Bernoulli's theorem

• viscosity

• laminar flow and whirling motion

 

THERMODYNAMICS

• temperature thermometry

• Gas state equation

• kinetic theory of gases

• work and heat

• First Law of Thermodynamics

• Second Law of Thermodynamics

• entropy

• thermodynamic processes

• thermodynamic potentials

• phase changes

• real gases

• Third Law of Thermodynamics

1) R. Mazzoldi, M. Nigro, C. Voci, Fisica – Vol. I , EdiSES - Napoli (Italia)

2) Focardi S., Massa I., Uguzzoni A., Villa M. - Fisica generale - MECCANICA E TERMODINAMICA, Casa editrice Ambrosiana

3) Halliday, Resnick, Krane, Fisica 1, Casa editrice Ambrosiana

4) Giancoli, Fisica 1, Casa editrice Ambrosiana

5) Young, Freedman, Ford, Principi di Fisica vol.1, _ each student will have free access to the pdf version of this text and to the web platform Mastering Physics