Enrollment year
2019/2020
Academic discipline
M-EDF/02 (TEACHING METHODS FOR SPORT)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, NEUROSCIENCE, EXPERIMENTAL AND FORENSIC MEDICINE
Course
SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(28/09/2020 - 26/01/2021)
Lesson hours
72 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
Basic concepts of mathematics at the level of secondary school. Advanced notions (e.g. calculus) are not required, the course is algebra-based.
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to provide students with the basic conceptual tools needed to interpret fundamental aspects of the behaviour of the human body and its interaction with the environment from the point of view of physics.
Course contents
Introductory notions: basic mathematic. Definition of a physical quantity and its dimensions. Systems of measurement units. Scalar and vector quantities. Basics of vector algebra.
Mechanics. Kinematic description of motion: trajectory and motion law, velocity, acceleration. Principles of dynamics, force, conservation of momentum. Uniform and uniformly accelerated motion. Relationship between weight and mass; density. Work, energy, power; theorem of kinetic energy, conservative forces, potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy. Friction forces.
Equilibrium of a rigid body; lever arm and torque, center of mass. Types of levers with examples from the human body.
Fluid mechanics: flow and equation of continuity. Pressure. Ideal fluids, the theorem of Bernoulli. Viscous fluids, laminar and turbulent motion. Transport in the viscous regime.
Thermology and thermodynamics. Temperature and scales. Internal energy. Heat and specific heat. Perfect gases. The principles of thermodynamics. Mechanisms of heat transfer.
Electromagnetic phenomena. Electric charge and Coulomb force. Electric field. The concept of capacitance for a conductor and a capacitor. Electric current and Ohm’s laws. Thermal effect of electric currents (Joule’s law). Basic notions on magnetic phenomena.
Wave phenomena. The description of waves. Sound and electromagnetic waves.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Montagna P., Panzarasa A., Dalla matematica alla fisica: richiami di matematica e semplici esercizi di fisica tra scuola superiore e università, ed. CLU, Pavia 2003
F. Borsa, G.L. Introzzi, D. Scannicchio, Elementi di Fisica per diplomi di indirizzo medico biologico. Edizioni UNICOPLI, Milano
Slides of the course
Assessment methods
Written exam
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