Physical quantities and measurement units. Kinematics of point particle: displacement, velocity and acceleration. Rectilinear and circular motion. Dynamics and Newton laws. Mass and weight. Friction. Work, energy and conservation laws. Impulse and momentum. Conservation of momentum. Moment of a force. Rigid body static equilibrium laws. Levers and applications to the human body. Elasticity and Hooke's law. Stress-deformation relationships.
Fluid in static and dynamic conditions. Density and pressure. Stevino, Pascal, Archimede and Torricelli laws. Blood pressure measurement. Bernoulli equation and its applications to the cardiovascular system. Venturi effect. Surface tension. Capillarity.
Gas laws. Diffusion. Osmotic pressure in biological processes. Thermal capacity and specific heat. Phase changes, latent heat and heat propagation. Thermodynamics.
Electrostatics. Electric properties of matter. Coulomb law. Electric field and electric potential. Electric current. Electric current and measuring instruments. Electrical resistance. Ohm laws. Magnetic fields. Faraday-Neumann-Lenz’s law. Electromagnetic radiation. Ionizing radiation and its interaction with biological matter.
