PHYSICS MEDICINE

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Professional education
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2023/2024
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2023/2024
Course type: 
Basic compulsory subjects
Seat of the course: 
Varese - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Credits: 
2
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
20
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (20 hours)
Requirements: 

None

The exam will consist of a short essay about one of the topics presented during the course, to be discussed during the oral exam.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Provide students with the basic elements of physics, allowing them to acquire a rigorous scientific method and to apply this method to the study of the subjects they will face in the course of their studies. Teaching of the fundamental principles of physics and their implications in the medical field.

- Elements of kinematics and dynamics (2 hours)
- Energy and work (2 hours)
- Rotational dynamics and joints (2 hours)
- Ideal Hydrodynamics and the blood cycle (2 hours)
- Real fluids (viscosity, surface tension) and biomedical applications (2 hours)
- Perfect gases and laws of thermodynamics (2 hours)
- Cell metabolism from the point of view of thermodynamics and chemistry (2 hours)
- Electromagnetism and biomedical applications (2 hours)
- Optics and the human eye (2 hours)
- Sound waves (2 hours)
- The human ear (2 hours)

Frontal lessons. During the lessons the topics that will be the subject of the final essay will be addressed.