LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students must learn methodologies to understand and solve problems concerning physical and biophysical applications. It will bring students to face the problems in quantitative solution.

(KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING) (Dublin): 2

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Training objectives. The course aims to lead students to face the solution of problems related to medical physics in both qualitative and quantitative terms, although limited to some aspects.

It requires the student to follow the lessons online, to understand the topics of the attached slides and to solve the preparation and self-evaluation exercises. The material is available to students on Aulaweb.

Students can perfect the ability to solve simple physics exercises even by following streaming lessons focused mainly on the resolution of exercises and quizzes similar to those used for exams. Only the ability to correctly face and interpret the proposed questions in the form of numerical exercises and/or quizzes can convince the student that he has understood the topics of the lessons. The student will have to acquire the ability to understand and correlate rather than rely only on mnemonic acquisition.

The Nobel Prize in Physics, R.Feynman, said: « I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! »

Expected learning outcomes. The student will have to learn the main elements of mechanics, thermology and thermodynamics, electricity, wave phenomena and light with particular reference to the topics of greatest relevance for students of study courses in Life Sciences. You will have to be able to interpret them through the resolution of quizzes and simple numerical exercises. The student can verify his/her preparation through the proposed self-assessment tests and the mandatory obtaining of a badge obtained by solving the evaluation quizzes sufficiently. The badge is essential to access the exam.

The student must learn the main elements of mechanics, thermology and thermodynamics, electricity, wave and light phenomena, atomic and nuclear physics with particular reference to the topics of greatest relevance for students of study courses in Life Sciences.

The student will have to pass the self-assessment tests in order to obtain the "badge" that allows to take the exam.

TEACHING METHODS

The course is provided online on Aulaweb: the student has available lessons, exercises and self-evaluation tests as well as lessons held in streaming focused on the resolution of exercises. In December, lectures are held mainly dedicated to the verification of teaching topics and the resolution of exercises. The professor proposes the comparison with lectures on the same topics held in the best universities – for example MIT – considering useful an international comparison already widely used in the past, for example in the choice of textbooks.

Online teaching remains available on the Aulaweb website of the University of Genoa until February of the next A.A. to be deactivated and replaced by the next year site.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

PROGRAM / CONTENTS
        
The course is divided into eight modules, each of which contains teaching units consist of videolessons, from transparencies files and exercises.

At the end of each teaching unit is a self-assessment test, which has the purpose of reinforcing the key concepts treated by reflection on the content and facilitate the preparation of the final examination in the presence.

                 Module 1
General information on the course and introduction to the course and simulations of Physics
                The scientific method
                Language and notation (only slides with examples)
                Vettori and angelfish (video only)
                Self-assessment module 1

            Module 2:
                Physical and Read Sizes
                The Laws of Dynamics

            Module 3:
                Forces and motion
                Self-assessments modules 2-3

            Module 4:
                Work-Energy-Power and Conservation of mechanical energy
                Self-assessment module 4
                Exercises

             

            Module 5:
                Statics of Fluids
                Thermodynamics and Gas perfect
                Heat and temperature
                Self-assessment module 5

            Module 6:
                electric fields
                electrical Circuits

            Module 7:
                Lesson 13 - magnetic fields and alternating currents
                Lesson 14 - Optics
                Self-assessment modules 6-7

            Module 8:
                Lesson 15 - Waves and. m. in medicine
                Lesson 16 - The X-ray

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Suggested bibliograpy:

M.Celasco – Lineamenti di Fisica – ECIG

D.Scannicchio-E.Giroletti – Elementi di Fisica Biomedica - EdiSES

M.Celasco-D.Panzieri – 2000 Problemi di Fisica – ECIG

Jay Newman - Physics of the Life Sciences (Springer)