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Study Plan
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Laurea in Bioinformatica - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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Linear algebra and analysis
2° Year It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026
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3° Year It will be activated in the A.Y. 2026/2027
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Linear algebra and analysis
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1 module among the following (Discrete Biological Models 2nd year, other modules 3rd year)1 module among the following (Elements of physiology and Biophysics 2nd year, Model organism in biotechnology research and Molecular biology laboratory 3rd year)Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Physics (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S00004
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
FIS/01 - EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS
Period
Semester 2 dal Mar 3, 2025 al Jun 13, 2025.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
The course will provide adequate competence in klinematis and the laws of dynamics, (macro and microscopic) termodynamics, electricitty and magnetism, physics of waves, including electromagnetic waves and physics of light, including the concept of photons. With a special focus on conceptual and language aspects, the aim of the course is to help developing a critical approach to the subject and anlytic skills. Students will be able to handle and exploit the main notions and physics models to be applied in the different areas of chemistry, biochemistry, biology and information theory.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Trigonometry.
Mathematical Analysis: derivatives and integrals.
Program
KINEMATICS
Concept of a material point. Vectors and vector operations. Displacement, velocity, acceleration.
EXAMPLES OF MOTIONS AND THEIR DESCRIPTION
Kinematics of uniform linear motion and uniform circular motion. Kinematics of free fall in a vacuum. Kinematics of motion in a viscous fluid. Kinematics of harmonic motion in a vacuum. Differential equation of harmonic motion. Kinematics of damped harmonic motion.
NEWTONIAN DYNAMICS
Principle of relativity. Postulates of Galilean relativity. Laws of dynamics.
Momentum. Inertial mass and gravitational mass.
Elastic force. Motion of a simple pendulum. Motion of a body suspended from a spring.
Dynamics of free fall in a vacuum and in the presence of a viscous fluid.
Normal reaction force, static and dynamic friction forces. Motion of an object sliding down an inclined plane. Elements of fluid statics: Stevin’s law.
ENERGY
Definition of kinetic energy. Definition of potential energy for gravitational force and elastic force. Total energy of the harmonic oscillator. Units of measurement of energy.
Generalization of the concept of potential energy. Conservation of energy and conservative forces. Potential energy of the electric force. Electric potential.
Variation of total energy and work of friction forces: dissipation.
THERMODYNAMICS
Concept of internal energy. Concept of heat. Thermal sensation and temperature. Processes leading to thermal equilibrium.
Zeroth law of thermodynamics. Measurement of temperature.
Joule’s experiment and the first law of thermodynamics.
Standard transformations of an ideal gas.
Second law of thermodynamics. Carnot’s theorem. Carnot cycle.
Absolute temperature. Clausius theorem. Definition of entropy as a property of a system measured through its variation. Microscopic meaning of entropy: Boltzmann’s definition of absolute entropy.
FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS AND INTRODUCTION TO ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
Gravitational interaction, electric interaction, magnetic interaction: characteristics and comparison. The concept of field. Magnetic force. Introduction to electromagnetic waves.
Speed of light in a vacuum. The concept of the photon and its properties.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
The course will be held at the blackboard in Italian and in presence. No streaming and no registration, unless
otherwise indicated by the central bodies or by the teaching committee
Learning assessment procedures
Oral examination. Admission after a written multiple choice test.
Evaluation criteria
Familiarity with the physical concepts concerning the treated arguments. Property of language. Ability in understanding the questions. Ability in analyzing the physical situations. Ability to synthesize in the answers.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
Not planned.
Exam language
Italiano
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