Enrico Fermi a Firenze
Le «Lezioni di Meccanica Razionale» al biennio propedeutico agli studi di Ingegneria: 1924-1926
- Edited by:
- Roberto Casalbuoni,
- Daniele Dominici,
- Giuseppe Pelosi,
Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938, taught at the Royal University of Florence. Fermi's stay in Florence was short and only lasted two academic years (1924/25 and 1925/26); during those years, he taught "Mathematical Physics" and "Rational Mechanics” courses. This volume contributes to the reconstruction of this quite unknown period of Fermi's life, marked however by the publication of the Fermi statistics, a scientific breakthrough which would bring the Italian scientist to international celebrity thanks to its application in several fields of physics. This work is at the base, among other things, of semiconductor physics and therefore of modern electronics. The text also features Enrico Fermi’s "Lessons of Rational Mechanics” to Science students and to students from the two-year preparatory course for Engineering studies during the aforementioned time span. The topics Enrico Fermi addressed in his lectures include kinematics and point dynamics, kinematics and statics of rigid systems and system statics in general. Lastly, the lessons contain 'Lagrangia’’s equations and some elements of hydromechanics.
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-960-7
- Series: I libri de «Il Colle di Galileo»
- Scientific Board
- Language: Italian
- Subjects: Physics Engineering
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1445-0654
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-4701-2012
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6826-0955
Daniele Dominici is Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Florence. He was Director of the Department of Physics of the University of Florence and of the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics of Arcetri. His carries out researches in the field of Theoretical Physics of Elementary Particles. He has collaborated with several foreign institutions, in particular the CERN, the University of Geneva, the UC Davis and the Johns-Hopkins University of Baltimore.
Giuseppe Pelosi is Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Engineering of the University of Florence. He is a Fellow of the IEEE «for the contributions to computational electromagnetics». Several foreign institutions have collaborated with him, including the McGill University of Montreal, the University of California of Los Angeles, the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis and the Centre for History of Science of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- Publication Year: 2019
- Pages: 408
- eISBN: 978-88-6453-960-7
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2019 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2019
- Pages: 408
- ISBN: 978-88-6453-959-1
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2019 Author(s)
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Book Title
Enrico Fermi a Firenze
Book Subtitle
Le «Lezioni di Meccanica Razionale» al biennio propedeutico agli studi di Ingegneria: 1924-1926
Editors
Roberto Casalbuoni, Daniele Dominici, Giuseppe Pelosi
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Number of Pages
408
Publication Year
2019
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© 2019 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-960-7
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978-88-6453-959-1
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Series Title
I libri de «Il Colle di Galileo»
Series ISSN
2704-5609
Series E-ISSN
2612-7989
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