Foundations of Physics for Environmental Sciences

The course aims at introducing students to the most relevant topics of physics for environmental sciences. The goal is to provide them the conceptual bases to understand issues as statics and dynamics of fluids, mechanical waves, electromagnetic waves, interaction of radiation with matter, atomic and nuclear structure and radioactivity.

At the end of the course the student will have developed knowledge on the fundamental concepts related to the statics and dynamics of fluids, to mechanical waves, to the nature and characteristics of electromagnetic radiation, to the interaction of radiation with matter, to the structure of the atom and of the atomic nucleus and to radioactivity. The student will acquire skills that will enable him to apply this knowledge to environmental issues.