Description of motion
1.1 1D motion: units in kinematics, position, velocity, acceleration, graphical description;
1.2 description of 2D motions: vectors, meaning and their operations;
1.3 measurement of position, velocity and acceleration and numerical integration of the motion laws.
(on the limit of the finite differences to small time steps, on
the use of the finite differences)

Newton’s law (single “massive point”):
2.1 mass, momentum and the concept of force
2.2 II law and its integration
2.3 types of forces (macroscopic view and microscopic origin)

Mechanical work and energy
3.1 the mechanical work and the kinetic energy (a disclaimer about
thermodynamics);
3.2 Work of friction forces
3.3 potential energy (elastic and gravitational energy), (non) conservation of
energy.

Systems of bodies
4.1 center of mass, rigid body and moment of inertia.
4.2 rotational motion, the angular momentum and its conservation;
4.3 Rotational kinetic energy

Waves I.
5.1 damped and forced oscillations: resonance;
5.2 from oscillatory motion to a mechanical wave. Description of the propagation of a wave, the wave front, the phase of the local oscillators.
5.3 Period, wavelength, speed, wave vector, types of waves
5.4 Energy of a wave (outline of the wave equation in 1D).
5.5 Transversal, longitudinal waves, sound

Waves II.
6.1 refraction and reflection of waves: conservation of energy
6.2 interference of 2 or more coherent waves, coherence length and time
6.3 Stationary waves: analysis of Kundt’s tube and of pipes

Light propagation.
7.1 wave front, Huygens principle and light ray;
7.2 reflection and refraction of light, the refraction index, Snell laws
7.3 light polarization, Brewster and critical angles
7.4 prisms

lenses and mirrors.
8.1 paraxial lens law: what is an image (conjugate planes)
8.2 composition of lenses, principal planes
8.3 mirrors

Diffraction and interference
9.1 diffraction from a single indefinite slit (Fraunhofer)
9.2 interference between discrete sources (Fraunhofer)