PHYSICS AND INFORMATICS SCIENCES

Integrated educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

TLB11A1

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2020/2021

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in BIOMEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES

Moduls:

PRINCIPLE OF PHYSICS - 5 credits
INFORMATICS SCIENCES - 1 credits
INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS - 1 credits

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

The proposed program will also allow students who have not previously matured
Disciplinary knowledge to achieve the training objectives indicated. There are therefore no prerequisites, but we recommend a knowledge of the notions of mathematics present in all high school programs.

Objectives

Physics:
Provide students with the fundamentals of Physics needed for carrying out their future activities, with particular regard to understanding the physical principles underlying the functioning and use of the equipment necessary for the control and detection of living matter phenomena in the biological and medical context. Allow the students to acquire the basic preparation for the correct use of this instrumentation.
Informatics:
Provide basic knowledge for the use of computers, the Internet and commonly used IT technologies, including search engines.
Systems for Information Processing :
The course aims to provide an introduction to the basics of using spreadsheets for data management and analysis.

Contents

Physics (5 CFU)
Informatics (1 CFU)
Systems for Information Processing (1 CFU)

Extended Syllabus

Physics: Introduction to physics - The scientific approach - Physical quantities and their measurement units - Physical dimensions - Scalar and vector quantities - Vector components- Operations with vectors: sum, difference, scalar product.

Particle kinematics: Reference systems - Rectilinear motion : position, velocity and acceleration. Uniform rectilinear motion and uniformly accelerated motion.
Curvilinear motion: velocity and acceleration. Tangential and normal components of acceleration. Circular motion: centripetal acceleration, angular velocity and angular acceleration.

Particle dynamics: Newton's laws - Inertial and non intertial reference systems - Applications of Newton's laws: weight force, friction forces, reaction forces, elastic forces, apparent forces. Applications: centrifuge.

Work and energy: Work of a force - Power - Kinetic energy - Theorem of live forces - Conservative forces - Potential energy - Conservation of mechanical energy.

Ideal fluids: Density and pressure - Fluids in static conditions: the principle of Pascal, the law of hydrostatics, the principle of Archimedes. Surface tension and capillary effect. Applications: micro pipettes. Pressure gauges. Viscosity and friction force. Applications: sedimentation in test tubes and with the centrifuge.
Fluids in dynamic conditions: flow rate and continuity equation. Bernoulli equation and applications. Motion in a viscous regime. Applications: suction and recirculation pumps in the suction hoods.
Thermology and Thermodynamics: Temperature - Thermometric scales. State of a thermodynamic system - Equation of state of ideal gases - Kinetic-molecular theory and definition of temperature - Thermal expansion, thermal capacity and specific heats - Heat transfer - Work - Cycles - First principle and the second principle of Thermodynamics. Applications: General characteristics of a thermometer. Thermometric scales, thermometers, thermostats, refrigerators and ULT freezers.

Electrostatics and electrodynamics: Electric charge. Coulomb's law. The electric field. Electrical potential and potential difference. Electrostatic capacity and capacitors. Applications: Electrophoresis.
The electric current. Electrical resistance and Ohm's law. Resistivity. Joule effect and elelctrical power. Applications: resistance thermometers, thermistors, thermocouples. RC circuits and leakage currents: safety of laboratory instruments.
The magnetic field, force generated on a wire crossed by current, the Biot-Savart law, the Ampere law. Force produced by two parallel currents. Lorentz force. Induction and Faraday-Lenz's law. Applications: the mass spectrometer. Applications: chromatography. Geometric optics: reflection - Refraction: Snell's law - Thin lenses and lens equation - Lens builders equation. Applications: magnifying glass, the optical microscope; blood cells counter.
Wave nature of light and matter: electromagnetic waves - light intensity. Huygens principle - interference - diffraction - resolution of the optical microscope - De Brogli hypothesis - Applications: the electron microscope.
Notes on the structure of the atom and on the phenomena of absorption and emission of electromagnetic radiation. Applications: spectrophotometer and coagulometer; capillary electrophoresis.

Informatics:
Hardware Main components - von Neumann architecture
- CPU
- memories
- mass memories
- I / O
- bus
Devices Performance

Software
System software and application software
- process manager (time slicing)
- central memory manager (shared by all processes)
- secondary storage manager (files and directories)
- device manager (driver)
- user interface (user interaction)

Computer networks

- computer networks and sharing of resources
- types of networks: LAN, WLAN, WAN
- network topology
- client / server and P2P (peer-to-peer) models: comparison
- Internet: network of networks
- functioning of the Internet
- other types of networks: intranet and extranet
- transmission media: twisted pair, coaxial cable, Ethernet cable, optical fiber, terrestrial radio link, satellite.
- data transfer:
- how to connect to the Internet

Search engines
- searches with Google
- special searches

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS:
Introduction to spreadsheets
The excel sheet
Enter, save and print data
Automatic data entry
Cell formatting
Mathematical formulas with excel
The functions of excel
Create and edit charts
Absolute and relative references in formulas and functions
Logic functions (SE, E, OR, XOR, NON)
Nested logical functions
Linear regression
Order data
Pivot tables
Database functions
Links between different sheets
Links between different files

Recommended Bibliography

Fisica
D.Giancoli, “Fisica” (ed. 2), Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
- P. Tipler, “Invito alla fisica”, Zanichelli,
-D. Scannicchio, "Fisica Biomedica", EDISES
- J.S. Walker, "Fondamenti di Fisica", Pearson
Informatics: Fabrizio Cattadori Appunti di Informatica
Lecturer’s course materials
Systems for Information Processing:
Fabrizio Cattadori Appunti di Informatica

Lecturer’s course materials

Teaching Methods

Lectures, Lectures in Informatics Laboratory, exercises in the classroom

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Physics:
The evaluation method consists of oral examination and the topics
under examination will reflect those discussed during the lessons and
present in the program. Specifically, both the topics on the basic principles and the application of these topics to the analysis techniques applied during this course of study, will be eaminated. The exam mode and the evaluation method will
be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course. The
evaluation will be based on the knowledge of the topics covered by the
exam questions and the students? logical-argumentative skills. For the
purpose of the evaluation, the quality of the oral presentation will
also be taken into consideration with particular reference to the
competence in the use of the specialized lexicon.

Computer practice test.

The final grade is
calculated as the weigthed average by CFU of the individual modules (with a score
equal or superior to 18/30) included in the integrated course.

Contacts/More Information

Physics: Consulting following phone call at 0871/3556937 or request sent to email stefania.dellapenna@itab.unich.it
Informatics and Systems for Information Processing :
E-mail: piero.dicarlo@unich.it
Student reception hours: Tuesday from 15:00 to 17:00 at DISPUTER, building ex-Lettere 3rd floor

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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