The exam consists in a written and an oral test. The student may choose to deal with the written/oral exam separately for the two modules or to face a single written/oral test on the full program at the end of the second module. In the written test (for each module) the student will be asked to frame at least one out of a set of problems concerning different topics presented in each module. This test allows to verify the ability of the student to understand a problem, to identify the physical mechanism at the basis of the phenomenon and to set up a simple model for the quantitative interpretation of the problem. Later, the successful student will undergo an oral exam where he/she will be asked to present a general topic of the course. This second part allows to verify if the student deeply understood the physical mechanisms at the basis of the phenomena discussed in the course.
In order to pass the exam (for each module) the student must be able to frame at least one of the problems in the written test and to master in a sufficient way the topics discussed in the oral test. In order to successfully pass the exam the student must be able to solve correctly at least two of the problems in the written test and master the topics discussed in the oral test. Full marks will be granted to the student who is able to solve correctly all the problems in the written test and to answer in an exhaustive way the questions posed in the oral test. The final mark will be the average of the marks obtained in each module.