Course Description
This course introduces the following concepts: Physics of fluids: statics and an introduction to dynamics. Ideal and real fluids. Periodic motion, simple harmonic motion, damped and forced oscillations. Waves in elastic media. Interference. Thermodynamics: temperature and heat. First law, transformations. Heat transfer. Second law. Thermodynamic functions: entropy and enthalpy. Microscopic interpretation. Entropy and disorder. The course is organized into frontal lectures, exercises, and small laboratory experiments.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the basic elements of fluid statics and dynamics;
• Illustrate through problems the nature of wave propagation in elastic media;
• Test the thermodynamics of equilibrium states using laboratory experiments.