Part I

Global environmental changes
Climate change and the greenhouse effect. Loss of biological diversity.
Deforestation. Desertification. Deprivation of the fresh water sources. Deprivation of the fossil energy sources. Air and water pollution. Physics of the greenhouse effect.

The impact of global environmental changes on the biosphere
Climate change, loss of biological diversity forestry.
Climate change and water resources.
Possible feedbacks amplifying and decreasing the greenhouse effect.

Part II

Mechanics
Kinematics of uniform rectilinear motion.
Kinematics of non-uniform rectilinear motion.
Kinematics in two and three dimensions.
Dynamics and Newton’s laws. Types of forces.
Kinetic energy, potential energy and work.
Conservation of energy. Gravitation .
Oscillating systems.

Fluid-dynamics
Law of Pascal and Archimede. Dynamics of fluids. Bernoulli’s theorem. Viscous flow. Stokes’s law and its corrections.
Brownian motion of particles suspended in a fluid (aerosol particles).

Thermodynamics
Heat and temperature Thermodynamics laws. Entropy and the thermodynamics potentials. Thermodynamics of atmospheric aerosols.

Elements of electromagnetism
Electric charge and electric field. Gauss’s law. Electrical potential. Electric current. Ohm’s and Joule’s laws. Magnetic field. Ampere’s law. Electromagnetic induction.