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. One-dimensional motion. Motion in two and three dimensions. Newton's laws. Forces of friction. Balance of forces. Work and kinetic energy. Potential energy. Conservation of energy. Pulse and momentum. Conservation of momentum. Bumps. Moment of a force. rotary motion: rotary analogue of Newton's second law, angular momentum. Problems of statics applied to natural posture: static of the biceps muscle. Oscillators: body connected to a spring, simple pendulum. Damped and forced oscillators: notes on the effects of friction and mechanical resonance.
Fluids in static and dynamic conditions: hydrostatic pressure. Thrust of Archimedes. Bernoulli equation and its applications to the cardiovascular system.
Absolute temperature concept. Temperature scales. Gas laws. Heat as a transfer of energy. Specific heat. Heat transmission. First law of thermodynamics and its applications to the human body. Thermodynamic transformations. The second law of thermodynamics. Yield.
Longitudinal and transverse mechanical waves. Power
carried by the waves. Sound characteristics. Sound intensity. Frequency content of a sound wave. Doppler effect.
Electric charge. Coulomb's law. The electric field. Electric potential and potential difference. Relationship between electric field and potential
electric. The ability. Energy stored in the capacitor. Electricity. Electric resistance and Ohm's law. Electric power. Kirchhoff's laws. Direct current circuits. Charge and discharge of a capacitor. The magnetic field. Motion of a charge in a magnetic field. Magnetic field generated by a current. Force between two parallel conductors carrying current. Electromagnetic induction and Faraday-Lenz law. Electromagnetic waves.
PC architecture and their general characteristics. Components of a PC: motherboard, CPU, memory, I / O interfaces, mass memory (HD, CD-ROM, DVD), flash memories, sound card, video card, monitor, power supply. Software: Firmware, BIOS, Windows operating systems, notes on linux and OS-X operating systems, Drivers, Application programs. Algorithm concept, compilers, libraries. Windows configuration. Programs of the Microsoft Office family with particular attention to Excel. Computer viruses and the main defence systems against malware: antivirus, firewall, antispyware. Computer networks, LANs, world wide web and internet.
Fourier series. Fourier transform. A / D conversion and sampling theorem. Acquisition of a digital image and its characterization. Image file formats. Bitmap and vector images. Image compression techniques. Digital filters.
Information technology tools for the treatment of digital images.
