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Health professions degree in
Speech and language therapy
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Medicine and Surgery

APPLIED PHYSICS I
cod. 1004841

Academic year 2011/12
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
NOT ASSIGNED
Academic discipline
Fisica applicata (a beni culturali, ambientali, biologia e medicina) (FIS/07)
Field
Scienze propedeutiche
Type of training activity
Basic
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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Integrated course unit module: PROPAEDEUTIC SCIENCES I

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Learning objectives

Knowledge of the physical laws and phenomena at the basis of instrumental
measurements as well as of the concepts of dimensions, units and physical
magnitudes.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Physical quantitites and their measurement: Measurement of a physical quantity - Dimensions and units – Errors - Mean value - Standard deviation and sampling approximation -Vector quantities. Fundamentals of dynamics: Principles of dynamics - Energy, work and power - Weight force - Theorem of the kinetic energy - Conservative force fields - Potential energy - Conservation of mechanical energy - Center of mass and its properties -Conservation of the quantity of motion - Moment of force - Overview of rigid body motion - Levers and the human body – Balance - Elastic phenomena, Hooke’s law and elasticity modules - Flexure and torsion - Elasticity of blood vessels and bones. Waves and acoustics: Wave motion, wave equation and characteristic parameters - Interference and beats - Stationary waves - Resonance - Diffraction and Huyghens principle - Sound and its characteristics - Intensity, sensation, Weber-Fechner law - Doppler effect - Ultrasound and its application in the biomedical field Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics: Pressure - Laws of Stevin, Pascal and Archimedes - Atmospheric pressure and Torricelli’s barometer - Arterial pressure and its measurement - Surface tension and Laplace’s formula - Capillarity and Jurin’s law - Gaseous embolism - Pipe flow capacity - Ideal liquid and Bernouilli’s theorem -Implications for blood flow - Real liquids and viscosity - Laminar motion and Poiseuille’s theorem - Hydraulic resistance - Stokes’ equation and sedimentation speed - Turbulent regime and Reynolds number - Overview of cardiac work. Thermology and thermodynamics: Thermal dilation -Temperature and heat - Laws of gas and absolute temperature - Equation of state of ideal gases and approximation for real gases - Overview of the kinetic theory of gases - Specific heats –Change of state and latent heat - Heat propagation mechanisms -First and second principle of thermodynamics -Thermal machines and efficiency - Entropy and disorder.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Physics:

Giambattista, McCarthy Richardson, Richardson: Fisica Generale, Ed. McGraw-Hill (Milano).

Bersani, Bettati, Biagi, Capozzi, Feroci, Lepore, Mita, Ortalli, Roberti, Viglino, Vitturi:
Fisica biomedica, Ed. Piccin Nuova Libraria (Padova).

Scannicchio: Fisica Biomedica,
Ed. EdiSES (Napoli).


Statistics:

1) lecture notes
2) Stanton A. Glantz : Statistica per discipline Bio-mediche - ed. McGraw-Hill
3) Sidney Siegel, N. John Castellan Jr. : - Statistica non parametrica - ed.
McGraw-Hill
4) Internet links

Teaching methods

classroom lectures

Assessment methods and criteria

written examination

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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Contacts

Toll-free number

800 904 084

Student registry office

E. segreteria.medicina@unipr.it
T. +39 0521 033700

Quality Assurance Office

Education Manager:
Dr. Claudia Simone
T. +39 0521 033732
Office email didattica.dimec@unipr.it
Manager's email claudia.simone@unipr.it
Course President
Prof. Andrea Bacciu
E. andrea.bacciu@unipr.it

Guidance delegate

Prof. Maria Teresa Berghenti
E. mariateresa.berghenti@unipr.it

Tutor professors

Prof. Andrea Bacciu
E. andrea.bacciu@unipr.it
Prof. Maria Teresa Berghenti
E. mariateresa.berghenti@unipr.it
Prof. Vincenzo Vincenti
E. vincenzo.vincenti@unipr.it
Prof. Enrico Pasanisi
E. enrico.pasanisi@uinipr.it
Prof. Filippo Di Lella
E. filippo.dilella@unipr.it
 

Quality Assurance Manager

Prof. Vincenzo Vincenti
E. vincenzo.vincenti@unipr.it

Internships

E. mariateresa.berghenti@unipr.it