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LABORATORY FOR THERMODYNAMICS
cod. 14105

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisica sperimentale (FIS/01)
Field
Sperimentale-applicativo
Type of training activity
Characterising
45 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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Learning objectives

<br />During this course ,the student learns to make useof measurement techniqies and to discuss critically the obtained data

Prerequisites

MECCANICA I- Lab. di MECCANICA- Lab. di INFORMATICA Introductory corse in elementary calculus

Course unit content

<br />Introductios to error analysis II.nd part.<br /> Least-squares method. Best fitting of linear and non-linear functions.<br />Covariance and correlation: correlation coefficient.<br />Reminds of combinatorial analysis. Bernoulli distribution and its asyntotic approximation to Gauss distribution.<br />Poisson distribution. Application: radioactive countings and decays.<br />Test for a distribution.<br />Calibration of a Fe-Constantane termocouple by using fixed reference points (solid-liquid-vapour phase transitions) of different substances (water, indium, gallium, mercury, air).<br />Experimental determination of the (average) specific heat of metals by making use a liquid nitrogen calorimeter.<br />Determination of the specific heat change of a metal (alluminum) at low temperature by making use of a Nernst calorimeter.<br />Study of a black-body radiation: determination of Stefan constant.

Full programme

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Bibliography

J.R.Taylor, Introduzione all’analisi degli Errori,. Zanichelli Editore, Bologna <br />· Lecture notes <br />· S. Rosati- FISICA GENERALE, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano <br />· R.G. M. Caciuiffo, S. Melone: FISICA GENERALE: Meccanica e Termodinamica, Masson Ed., Milano <br />· D. Halliday, R. Resnick, K.S. Krane- FISICA 1, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano

Teaching methods

<br />Oral examimation and presentation of a written report on lab activity.

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