ATTENTION: due to the continuing risks associated with the COVID-19 emergency, this course is FULLY ONLINE at least for the first semester A/Y 2020/2021.

N.B: for the program, the exam procedures, the dates of the exams, etc. see the institutional web page of the course:

Urban And Environmental Applied Physics

Pre-requisites

This course assumes that students have already acquired some basic knowledge during their three-years degree, and in particular:

• thermophysical properties of moist air
• heat dispersion through the building envelope
• fundamentals of acoustics
• fundamentals of lighting technology

If necessary, students who are not already in possession of these basic knowledge can integrate their cultural background by using the teaching material (slides, handouts, video recording of the lessons) taken from the web page of the Environmental Technical Physics course held over the years past:

• Fisica Tecnica Ambientale (A/Y 2019-20)

Flipped Classroom - 1^st semester

The first half of the course (corresponding to the 1st cycle of lessons) is set with the methodology known as "flipped classroom": the didactic part of the teaching makes use of multimedia material made available on this website (NOT on ELLY or on other poorly expandable platforms), as better specified in the following calendar.
During online meetings orgainzed on MS Teams, students should report to the class after viewing and studying the material relevant to each lesson, which is made available one week in advance. In the virtual classroom the activity is carried out as a "workshop", based on the solution of concrete verification or design problems.
The teacher and the students themselves alternate on the blackboard, solving problems also in numerical form and carrying out project calculations and sizing.
Four "flpped classrooms" are planned, with reference to the following topics:

Calendar of Interactive Lessons on MS Teams (1^st Semester)
 

Topic	Notes	Slides	Video Lessons
Heat transfer through walls and windows
Heat sources: furnaces and heat pumps
Diffusion of humidity, the Glaser diagram
Yearly energy requirement, energetic performance certification

Topic	Notes	Video Lessons
Lighting technology: fundamental quantities and cause-effect relationships
Indoor artificial lighting: type of lamps Light quality: Color Temperature and Color Rendering Index (CRI)
Design of indoor artificial lighting systems with the Lumen method Verification of daylight natural lighting indoors with the average daylight factor

N.	Date and Hour	Topic	Link to material
4	16/12/2020 - 11.00-13.00	Outdoor lighting	<work in progress>

Topic	Notes	Video Lessons
Fundamentals of street lighting
Design of a road lighting system
The free software Easy Light - Save the Sky (Cielo Buio - https://cielobuio.org/)

Exam Project (Laboratory) - 2^nd Semester
The activity carried out in the first part of the course is aimed at developing a project, to be carried out during the second part (from March 2021 onwards), which is assigned to groups of 2 students, and which constitutes during this phase the main activity carried out in the classroom.
Students are entrusted with the drafting of a urban planning project related in an urban context with high population density, for which they will have to produce the technical documentation required by the current regulatory framework, and more specifically the following two documents:

• acoustics climate analysis (including assessment of noise sources, if present)
• design of the new public lighting system

At each lesson, some students present the progress of their project and the whole class interacts providing suggestions and criticisms.
The final aim of the laboratory is the production of two chapters of the A3 book (acoustics, lighting), which will form the basis of evaluation together with the work done in the classroom.

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Latest revision: 13/12/2020