PROPEDEUTICAL SCIENCES

Integrated educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

TLB11B1

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in BIOMEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES

Moduls:

MEDICAL STATISTICS - 2 credits
APPLIED PHISICS - 4 credits
INFORMATICS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS - 2 credits

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

The proposed program will also allow students who have not previously matured
Disciplinary knowledge to achieve the training objectives indicated. There are therefore no prerequisites, but we recommend a knowledge of the notions of mathematics present in all high school programs.

No prerequisites

Objectives

Provide students with the fundamentals of Physics needed for carrying out their future activities, with particular regard to understanding the physical principles underlying the functioning and use of the equipment necessary for the control and detection of living matter phenomena in the biological and medical context. Allow the students to acquire the basic preparation for the correct use of this instrumentation.

Provide basic knowledge for the use of computers, the Internet and commonly used IT technologies, including search engines and database management.

Contents

Physical principles underlying the operation of instruments and techniques relating to the theoretical and practical activity of the Health Laboratory Technician

Basic concepts of computer science and the use of computers, such as hardware, software, computer networks, problems related to the use of the Internet and search engines. Basic application of database manipulation with microsoft excel.

Extended Syllabus

Physics: Introduction to physics - The scientific approach - Physical quantities and their measurement units - Physical dimensions - Scalar and vector quantities - Vector components- Operations with vectors: sum, difference, scalar product.

Particle kinematics: Reference systems - Rectilinear motion : position, velocity and acceleration. Uniform rectilinear motion and uniformly accelerated motion.
Curvilinear motion: velocity and acceleration. Tangential and normal components of acceleration. Circular motion: centripetal acceleration, angular velocity and angular acceleration.

Particle dynamics: Newton's laws - Inertial and non intertial reference systems - Applications of Newton's laws: weight force, friction forces, reaction forces, elastic forces, apparent forces. Applications: centrifuge.

Work and energy: Work of a force - Power - Kinetic energy - Theorem of live forces - Conservative forces - Potential energy - Conservation of mechanical energy.

Ideal fluids: Density and pressure - Fluids in static conditions: the principle of Pascal, the law of hydrostatics, the principle of Archimedes. Applications: micro pipettes. Pressure gauges. Viscosity and friction force. Applications: sedimentation in test tubes and with the centrifuge.
Fluids in dynamic conditions: flow rate and continuity equation. Bernoulli equation and applications. Motion in a viscous regime. Applications: chromatography.
Thermology and Thermodynamics: Temperature - Thermometric scales. State of a thermodynamic system - Equation of state of ideal gases - Kinetic-molecular theory and definition of temperature - Thermal expansion, thermal capacity and specific heats - Heat transfer - Work - Cycles - First principle of Thermodynamics. Applications: Thermometric scales, thermometers.

Electrostatics and electrodynamics: Electric charge. Coulomb's law. The electric field. Electrical potential and potential difference. Electrostatic capacity and capacitors. Applications: Electrophoresis.
The electric current. Electrical resistance and Ohm's law. Resistivity. Joule effect and elelctrical power. Applications: resistance thermometers, thermistors, thermocouples.
The magnetic field, force generated on a wire crossed by current, the Biot-Savart law, the Ampere law. Force produced by two parallel currents. Lorentz force. Induction and Faraday-Lenz's law. Applications: the mass spectrometer. Applications:. Geometric optics: reflection - Refraction: Snell's law - Thin lenses and lens equation - Lens builders equation. Applications: magnifying glass, the optical microscope; blood cells counter.
Notes on the structure of the atom and on the phenomena of absorption and emission of electromagnetic radiation. Applications: spectrophotometer and coagulometer; capillary electrophoresis.
Hardware Main components - von Neumann architecture
- CPU
- memories
- mass memories
- I / O
- bus
Devices Performance

Software
System software and application software
- process manager (time slicing)
- central memory manager (shared by all processes)
- secondary storage manager (files and directories)
- device manager (driver)
- user interface (user interaction)

Computer networks

- computer networks and sharing of resources
- types of networks: LAN, WLAN, WAN
- network topology
- client / server and P2P (peer-to-peer) models: comparison
- Internet: network of networks
- functioning of the Internet
- other types of networks: intranet and extranet
- transmission media: twisted pair, coaxial cable, Ethernet cable, optical fiber, terrestrial radio link, satellite.
- data transfer:
- how to connect to the Internet

Search engines
- searches with Google
- special searches

Recommended Bibliography

D.Giancoli, “Fisica” (ed. 2), Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
- P. Tipler, “Invito alla fisica”, Zanichelli,
-D. Scannicchio, "Fisica Biomedica", EDISES
- J.S. Walker, "Fondamenti di Fisica", Pearson
Ppt provided by the lecturer
Fabrizio Cattadori Appunti di Informatica

Lecturer’s course materials

Teaching Methods

Lectures
Fontal lectures, lab activity and classroom exercises

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The evaluation method consists of oral examination and the topics
under examination will reflect those discussed during the lessons and
present in the program. Specifically, both the topics on the basic principles and the application of these topics to the analysis techniques applied during this course of study, will be eaminated. The exam mode and the evaluation method will
be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course. The
evaluation will be based on the knowledge of the topics covered by the
exam questions and the students? logical-argumentative skills. For the
purpose of the evaluation, the quality of the oral presentation will
also be taken into consideration with particular reference to the
competence in the use of the specialized lexicon.
Computer practice test of knowledge of the basic functions of excel.
Oral examination

Contacts/More Information

Consulting following phone call at 0871/3556937 or request sent to email stefania.dellapenna@itab.unich.it
Office hours: students can be received at the end of each lesson or making a specific appointment.
(e-mail: p.chiacchiaretta@unich.it).

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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