Università Roma Tre

Syllabus
Basics

[x] Graphs reading MA 4.2
[x] Vector velocity and its variation MA 4.1
[x] Vettors MA 4.7, 4.8
Mechanics

[x] Explosions. Momentum and its conservation. BO 2.9, MA 5.9
[x] Elastic collisions and energy MA 7.9
[x] Forces, kinetic energy, work MA 7.1, 7.3
[x] Circular motion MA 4.11, 4.12
[x] Falling bodies, potential energy MA 7.4, 7.7
[x] Gravitational field and Newton's law MA 6.1, WE 14
[x] Experimental errors and classical indetermination; Chaos MA2 5
[x] Galilei's relativity, symmetry laws, stationary action in classical physics BO 3.5, MA 5.4, MA2 3
Electrostatics and potentials MA 7.11, 7.12

Microscopic theories

[x] Ideal gas, kinetic theory and equilibrium, Boltzmann equation MA 7.15
[x] Brownian motion, Perrin's experiment MA 3.3
Argomenti avanzati

[x] Einstein's Relativity: (constant speed of light, time dilation, cosmic muons, relation between energy and mass, gravitational redshift and movement) MA 11
[x] Double slit experiment with bullets, waves, electron, photons: quantum mechanics FE3 1
[x] Stationary action principle in quantum mechanics
[x] Dark matter
[x] The need for antimatter
[x] The number of baryons in the Universe

MA= B. Marion - Physics and the Physical Universe - Wiley

BO= M. Born - Einstein's theory of relativity - Dover

WE= S. Weinberg - To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science - Harper

MA2= R. March - Physics for poets - McGraw-Hill

FE3= The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. 3 - Feynman, Leighton, Sands - Availabe in HTML from the publisher for on-line consultation

readings supplied during class